2 Quotes & Sayings By Witter Bynner
Witter Bynner was born in San Francisco to a family of artists. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he met his future wife, fellow student Georgia O'Keeffe. In 1913, he returned to New York City and worked as a journalist for a few years before embarking on a six-year sojourn abroad. During this time, Bynner's father died, and he was reportedly distraught
In 1920, he returned to San Francisco and married Georgia O'Keeffe. The couple moved to Paris in 1926. In 1930, Bynner began writing poetry and short stories as well as publishing volumes of poetry under the name Witter Bynner.
He also worked as a journalist for the San Francisco Call-Bulletin until 1931. In 1935, Bynner published his first novel, A Night in Acadie (the title is a reference to a poem by William Butler Yeats). In 1938 he completed his second novel, Summer Madness (a thinly veiled account of the artist John Marin).
From 1938 to 1941, Bynner served as editor at Alfred A. Knopf (now part of Random House), working primarily on the firm's literary magazine. During World War II , Bynner served in the U.S.
Navy, where he wrote over two hundred anti-submarine warfare reports; these were later edited into an acclaimed book titled War-Time Essays (1946). Upon returning to New York City after the war, Bynner worked primarily on short stories and books of poetry that were published by McGraw Hill/Discovery Books until his death in 1952 .