Author Wylie Elinor

part of her literary circle and brother of Stephen Vincent Benet. Her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt (December 1856 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - ?) and Anne Morton McMichael (July 31, 1861 in Pa. -?). Their other children were: Talented in several arts, she was torn between painting and writing, but her position inside Washington, D.C. literary circles, particularly with John Dos Passos and Edmund Wilson, encouraged her writing efforts. She wrote eight novels and several books of poetry. Her first book, Incidental Numbers (1912), was published privately in England. The first of her books to bring her recognition was her first official collection of poetry, Nets to Catch the Wind (1921). She was named literary editor of Vanity Fair magazine in 1922. Her other volumes of poetry include: Black Armour (1923), Trivial Breath (1928), Angels and Earthly Creatures (1929), and Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie (1932). Wylie's literary interests are largely conservative and formal, as demonstrated by her preoccupation with the sonnet. Heavily influenced by 16th and 17th century English poetics, Wylie also shares the Romantics' infatuation with nature and fantasy. Her last novel, Orphan Angel (1926) explores what Percy Bysshe Shelley's life would have been like if he had escaped his early death and moved to America.