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In what one scholar called “the literary event of the decade,” on 2 January 2020, Princeton University Library opened up more than 1,100 letters that the Nobel-Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot wrote over the course of three decades to an American speech professor and amateur actress named Emily Hale.
The day became even more newsworthy when, later that morning, Harvard University released a letter that Eliot had written in 1960, denying he had ever been in love with Hale. Now scholars are delving into the trove of material, and reporting that the collection will forever change what the world has known about one of the 20th century’s greatest poets.
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Sara Fitzgerald is the author of The Poet’s Girl, a novel based on the life of Emily Hale. Fitzgerald retired after a career that included 15 years as an editor and new media developer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Elly Peterson: ‘Mother’ of the Moderates, which was recognized as a Notable Book of 2012 by the Library of Michigan. Her next book is Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX, to be published by University of Michigan Press later this year. Learn more at www.sarafitzgerald.com.
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