[1] She published over 600 poems in her professional career, in places such as The Birmingham News, and The New York Times, and won the top poetry award, The Century of Progress lyric prize, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.
Mary's father, Henry, was a Baker by trade and owned a business that the family worked in together.
[4] During World War II, She reconditioned houses for defense workers and completed the civil service examination for an editorial position covering all state news and when the applicants were rated, Mary was notified that she had made the highest grade and received the rating of No.1.
[8] She was the first Poet Laureate since the death of Samuel Minturn Peck, being sworn in on November 21, 1954, by Gov.
"Experts have compared her poems to that of Robert Frost, particularly those in which people are talking"[9] The Mary B.