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Baker, Karle Wilson.  [1878-1960] 

Born in Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 13, 1878.  Educated in
public and private schools at Little Rock and at the University of Chicago. Mrs. Baker taught for several years in Virginia and in the High Schools of Little Rock, but in 1901 took up her residence in Texas, whither her family had preceded her, and in 1907 was married to Thomas Ellis Baker, of Nacogdoches, which is her present home. Mrs. Baker is one of the promising new writers, her first volume of verse, "Blue Smoke", having been published in 1919, by the Yale Press.

From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).

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