Joan Murray (other)
Joan Murray is an American poet. Joan Murray may also refer to: * Joan Vincent Murray, Canadian-American poet *Joan Murray (art historian), Canadian art historian * Joan Murray (journalist), American journalist *Joan Clarke Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (''née'' Clarke; 24 June 1917 – 4 September 1996) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally ...

Joan Murray
Joan Murray (born August 6, 1945) is an American poet, writer, playwright and editor. She is best known for her narrative poems, particularly her book-length novel-in-verse, ''Queen of the Mist''; her collection ''Looking for the Parade'' which won the National Poetry Series Open Competition, and her New and Selected Poems volume, ''Swimming for the Ark'', which was chosen as the inaugural volume in White Pine Press's Distinguished Poets Series. Early life and education Joan Murray was born in the South Bronx and attended Hunter College, first as a studio art major, and later as an English major, winning Hunter College's Bernard Cohen fiction prize. She married at 19 and had two children (one of whom died in infancy). She earned an M.A. from New York University and, in 1970, began teaching at Lehman College of the City University of New York. Career Murray’s first collection, ''The Same Water'', won the Wesleyan New Poets Series Competition and was a finalist for the Academy ...
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Joan Vincent Murray
Joan Vincent Murray (February 12, 1917 – January 4, 1942) was a Canadian American poet. She studied at The New School, with W. H. Auden. Her papers are at Smith College. Awards * 1947 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, selected by W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, ... Works * * Poems : 1917 - 1942 / Joan Murray. Ed. by Grant Code; with a foreword by W.H. Auden, New York : AMS Pr., 1971, * Drafts, fragments, and poems : the complete poetry, Farnoosh Fathi (Ed.), John Ashbery (Foreword) New York : New York Review Books 2017, References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Joan Vincent 20th-century American poets American women poets 1917 births 1942 deaths The New School alumni British emigrants to Canada 20th-century Canadian po ...
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Joan Murray (art Historian)
Joan Murray (born August 6, 1945) is an American poet, writer, playwright and editor. She is best known for her narrative poems, particularly her book-length novel-in-verse, ''Queen of the Mist''; her collection ''Looking for the Parade'' which won the National Poetry Series Open Competition, and her New and Selected Poems volume, ''Swimming for the Ark'', which was chosen as the inaugural volume in White Pine Press's Distinguished Poets Series. Early life and education Joan Murray was born in the South Bronx and attended Hunter College, first as a studio art major, and later as an English major, winning Hunter College's Bernard Cohen fiction prize. She married at 19 and had two children (one of whom died in infancy). She earned an M.A. from New York University and, in 1970, began teaching at Lehman College of the City University of New York. Career Murray’s first collection, ''The Same Water'', won the Wesleyan New Poets Series Competition and was a finalist for the Academy ...
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Joan Murray (journalist)
Joan Murray (November 6, 1937 – December 18, 2021) was the first African-American woman to report the news on a major network show. She was employed by CBS in 1965 after writing a letter to CBS-TV requesting they hire her as a news broadcaster. Early life and career Murray was born on November 6, 1937, in Ithaca, New York. She began her professional life as a court reporter, later becoming a secretary in the Press Department of CBS-TV in New York City, and then a secretary to Allen Funt of ''Candid Camera''. She also worked as a writer for ''Women on the Move'', an NBC daytime program hosted by television personality Kitty Carlisle. Joan and her twin sister appeared in both print and television commercials targeting the African-American consumer. Murray's impact as a professional African-American woman was significant. In April 1965, she became the first African-American newswoman employed by a major television station, WCBS (Channel 2, New York City) and the only African-Ameri ...
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