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Katherine Garrison Chapin (September 4, 1890 – December 30, 1977), sometimes known by her married name Katherine Biddle, was an American poet, librettist, and playwright. She is best known for two collaborations with composer William Grant Still : And They Lynched Him on a Tree (1940) and Plain-Chant for America (1941).
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When Katherine Garrison Chapin was born on 4 September 1890, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Lindley Hoffman Chapin, was 36 and her mother, Cornelia Garrison Van Auken, was 25. She married Francis Beverley Biddle on 27 April 1918, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
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Born 4 September 1890, Waterford, Connecticut; died 30 December 1977, Devon, Pennsylvania. Daughter of Lindley H. and Cornelia Van Auken Chapin; married Francis Biddle, 1918. Educated at private schools and Columbia University, Katherine Garrison Chapin was a poet, playwright, translator, reviewer and lecturer.
Katherine Garrison Chapin is the author of seven books of poems, and was appointed in 1944 by Archibald MacLeish to serve as one of the original Fellows in Letters of the Library of Congress. She also served as a judge for the Bollingen Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the National Book Award in Poetry.
ON Friday, December 30, 1977, KATHERINE GARRISON CHAPIN BIDDLE, of Georgetown, age 87, wife of the late Francis Biddle; mother of Edmund Randolph Biddle. Also survived by two grandsons.
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Katherine Garrison Chapin, who married Attorney General Francis Biddle, was a poet, critic, and a Fellow in American Letters at the Library of Congress. Her extensive book collection was given to Georgetown in 1981 by her son, Edmund Randolph Biddle.
