About
Inaugural California Poet Laureate who wrote such poems as "The Mother's Grief" and "When the Grass Shall Cover Me." She published many of her poems in The Overland Monthly, a California-based literary journal.
Before Fame
She began writing when she was just eleven years old, and she published her first poem when she was fifteen.
Trivia
She worked as a librarian for the Oakland Library Association, which later became the Oakland Free Library.
Family Life
She was the niece of Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr. She left the Mormon community in her teens and moved to Los Angeles.
Associated With
Mark Twain praised Coolbrith's literary work.
