Biography:

Newspaper correspondent; educator.  Born–February 27, 1889.  Mobile. Parents– Francis G. and M. E. (Henry) Ruffin. Education– St. Joseph’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., B.A. Married– Joseph F. Durham. Employed as teacher; public relations officer for Mobile Schools;  Mobile correspondent for the Birmingham News and Age Herald. Member and president of Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman of the Alabama Anthology Committee; League of American Penwomen. Died June 22, 1972.

Source:

Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Dungi Speaks. St. Louis, Mo.; Charles E. Luntz Pub., 1958.

Mobile: A History Reader.  Mobile Public Schools, 1954.

Sea Women; Poems. Portland, Me.; House of Falmouth, 1964.

Swallows in the Air; Certain Haiku. Charleston, Ill.; Prairie Press, 1969.

Compiler:

The Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928. Atlanta; E. Hartsock, The Bozart Press, 1928.