| LC control no. | n 00039045 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Johnson, Helene, 1906-1995 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1906-07-07 |
| Death date | 1995-07-06 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Girls' Latin School (Boston, Mass.) Boston University Columbia University Lafayette School (Boston, Mass.) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Civil servants |
| Found in | Johnson, Helene. This waiting for love, c2000: CIP t.p. (Helene Johnson) galley (b. July 7, 1906, Boston, Mass; d. July 6, 1995, Manhattan) African American National Biography, accessed June 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Johnson, Helene V.; poet, civil servant; born 07 July, 1906 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; educated, Boston's Lafayette School, the Martin School, and the Boston Girls' Latin School; took writing courses at Boston University; studied at Columbia University's Extension Division; joined the Boston black writers' organization, Saturday Evening Quill Club; published poems in the magazine Opportunity (1924-1926), won first, fourth, and seventh levels of honorable mention in an Urban League competition (1926); published poems in the Vanity Fair magazine, New York (1927), the journal Psalms, Harlem magazines (1928), Saturday Evening Quill (1928-1931), the anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry (1931), and Challenge (1935). She was civil service employee (1935-1980s); died 06 July, 1995 in Manhattan, New York, United States) |
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