Helen Rose Hull

Beginning her teaching career at Wellesley College and Barnard College, she went on to teach creative writing at the Ivy League institution, Columbia University for forty years with her lifelong partner, Mabel Louise Robinson.

[3] At a young age, Helen and her brother became financially responsible for their family,[4] as their father remained unemployed after World War I.

Her short stories appeared in more than fourteen different American magazines, including Colliers, Century, Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Cosmopolitan, and Ladies Home Journal.

[5] Despite being involved in radical politics early in life, Hull mainly addressed issues through the stories of her characters.

[5] It is speculated that her decreased involvement in the political scene was due to her publisher's concern that Hull's lesbianism would be "detrimental to her career.