Anne Ridler

Anne Ridler
Born
Anne Barbara Bradby

30 July 1912
Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Died15 October 2001 (aged 88)
EducationDowne House School, King's College, London
Occupation(s)Poet, playwright/dramatist, and editor
SpouseVivian Ridler
Family

Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poet and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) were published in 1994. She turned to libretto work and verse plays; it was later in life that she earned official recognition, receiving an OBE in 2001.[1]

  1. ^ "No. 56237". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 16 June 2001. p. 12.