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H. D., age seventy, at Yale University, 1956.
Credit: H.D. Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University and New Directions Publishing
In the 1950s and 1960s, H.D. enjoyed some of her most productive years as a writer. In 1956, in honor of her seventieth birthday, the Sterling Library at Yale University mounted an exhibit in her honor.