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Stevie Smith

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The Resume

    (September 20, 1902-March 7, 1971)
    Born in Kington upon Hull, England, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Florence Margaret Smith
    Wrote the novels 'Novel on Yellow Paper' (1936), 'Over the Frontier' (1938) and 'The Holiday' (1949)
    Published the poetry collections 'A Good Time Was Had by All' (1937), 'Tender Only to One' (1938), 'Mother, What Is Man?' (1942), 'Harold's Leap' (1950), 'Not Waving But Drowning' (1957), 'The Best Beast' (1969) and 'Scorpion and Other Poems' (1972)

Why she might be annoying:

    She was nicknamed Stevie because of her resemblance to jockey Steve Donaghue.
    She was obsessed with death.
    She was depressed.
    She suffered a nervous breakdown.
    She was the favorite poet of fellow depressive Sylvia Plath.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her father ran off to sea and abandoned the family when she was three.
    When she was five, she developed tuberculosis and was sent away to a sanitarium.
    She avoided sentimentality in her poems.
    She received the Cholmondeley Award for poets (1966) and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry (1969).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 76.19% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 29 Votes: 58.62% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying