Alicia Keisker Van Buren (5 March 1860 – 11 April 1922) was an American composer,[1] singer,[2] painter,[3] and poet.
[4] Van Buren was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended public and unspecified private schools.
[5] She married Albert Van Buren and they lived in Louisville[6] and Brookline, Massachusetts, spending the winters at their home in Florida.
[3] In Brookline, the Van Burens socialized in artistic, literary, and musical circles, with composers Amy Beach and Helen Archibald Clarke, and with authors Oscar Fay Adams, Franz Bellinger, Abbie Farwell Brown, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Louise Chandler Moulton, Josephine Preston Peabody, and James Whitcomb Riley.
[7] Van Buren's papers and correspondence are archived at Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.