Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor
- Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor
Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor (1 October 1888–21 August 1973) was an American poet.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, she later moved with her family to Roanoke, Virginia, where she was privately educated. In 1908 she married William Graham Claytor (1886–1971), an engineer at the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company (later known as Appalachian Electric Power Company). Their five sons included William Graham Claytor Jr. (1912–1994), who was secretary of the navy from 1977 to 1979, deputy secretary of defense, acting secretary of transportation, and president of Southern Railway and of Amtrak, and Robert Buckner Claytor, president of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company and chief executive officer of the Norfolk Southern Corporation.
Late in the 1920s Claytor began publishing poetry in such periodicals as the "Carolina Quarterly", "Florida Magazine of Verse", "Georgia Review", "New York Times", "Prairie Schooner", and "Saturday Review of Literature". She also published two collections, "Sunday in Virginia and Other Poems" (1951) and "Mirage at Midnight and Other Poems" (1960).
For a number of years the Poetry Society of America offered a Gertrude B. Claytor Prize.
References
* John T. Kneebone et al., eds., "Dictionary of Virginia Biography" (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 1998- ), 3:291-292. ISBN 0-88490-206-4
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