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Pauline Avery Crawford Papers, 1902-1997Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NotePauline Avery Crawford was born in Cortland, NY on 8 Aug 1890, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Educated at Goucher College, she taught for a year before her 1913 marriage to John Raymond Crawford, an archaeology professor at Columbia and Lafayette Colleges; together, they had two sons, William (b. 1915) and Jack (b. 1921). She and her husband separated in the mid-1920s (he later committed suicide in 1929) and she and her two sons went to Europe. As an American living in Paris from 1926 until her death in 1952, Crawford wrote for English-speaking publications, reporting on the Paris scene for, first Vogue magazine, then the International Herald Tribune where she documented the impact of World War II in verse and prose, including her own column, "Our Times in Rhyme" (1946-51). After several years of failing health, including the loss of a leg after a botched operation in 1931, Crawford died in Paris 14 Jan 1952. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionNumerous unpublished manuscripts, as well as some published material by and about Pauline Avery Crawford whose writing career focused especially on the impact of World War II as seen through the eyes of an American living in Paris throughout the war. NOTE: The container list for this collection is available in the Sophia Smith Collection. Please contact us to request a copy. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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