News 88.7 in partnership with Humanities Texas launches Texas Originals — a new weekly radio segment profiling individuals whose lives and achievements have had a profound influence upon Texas history and culture.
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Texas Originals: Karle Wilson Baker
A closeup of Karle Wilson Baker from the SFA Faculty, Summer 1925, image below. [Image credit: Stephen F. Austin State Teacher College Faculty, 1925, East Texas Research Center, Photograph Collection, P20zz_4, http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/] KARLE WILSON BAKEROctober 13, 1878–November 9, 1960 Karle Wilson Baker was Texas’s most celebrated poet in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Arkansas in 1878, Baker followed her parents to Nacogdoches in her early twenties. She soon fell... Read More