Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Brigham, Besmilr
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Brigham, Besmilr, 1923-
Other form(s) of name
- Besmilr Brigham
- Bess Brigham
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1923-
History
Besmilr Brigham was born in Pace, Mississippi in 1923. Although spending much in her life traveling to places such as France, Central America, and Mexico, she was living in Horatio, Arkansas, the home of her parents, at the time of correspondence with Merton. She now lives with her daughter and son-in-law, the poet Keith Wilson, in New Mexico. In 1971, she published the book «Heaved from the Earth». Merton had many good things to say about another book she was attempting to publish at the time of writing entitled «The Tiger» (Source: The United States of Poetry website, a program produced by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/word.htm]).