Auteur: Helena Morley

ALICE DAYRELL CALDEIRA BRANT (August 28, 1880 – June 20, 1970) was a Brazilian juvenile writer.She was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil to a British-Brazilian father and a Portuguese-Brazilian mother. In 1893, at the age of 12, Alice began a diary: an astute, and often amusing, chronicle of daily happenings among her family, servants, and the small mining town, Diamantina. The published diary ends in 1895.As an adult, Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant, by then a social figure in Rio de Janeiro, was married to the writer and also a president of the Banco do Brasil (« Bank of Brazil »), who in 1942 encouraged her to publish the diary that appeared as Minha Vida de Menina under the pseudonym Helena Morley.She died in 1970 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 89.ELIZABETH BISHOP (1928-79) was one of the greatest, most beloved American poets and short-story writers of the twentieth century. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949-1950 and the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956.Born an only child in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bishop received a substantial traveling fellowship from Bryn Mawr College in 1951 and decided to travel to South America. On her arrival in Santos, Brazil that year, Bishop expected to stay two weeks but ended up staying 15 years.Her first book, North & South (1946) won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry. The follow-up volume, Poems: North and South—A Cold Spring won Bishop the Pulitzer Prize in 1956. Her next major publication was The Complete Poems (1969), which won a National Book Award, and her last new book of poems to appear in her lifetime was Geography III (1977), which won Bishop the Neustadt International Prize for Literature—an award no woman had won before, and no other American has won since.She died in 1979 at the age of 68.