Marianne Craig Moore (Nov 15, 1887 – Feb 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. Moore's first professionally published poems appeared in The Egoist and Poetry in the spring of 1915. Moore's first book, Poems, was published in 1921. Her second book, Observations, won the Dial Award in 1924. She worked part-time as a librarian during these years then from 1925 to 1929, she edited The Dial magazine, a literary and cultural journal. This position in the literary and arts community extended her influence as an arbiter of modernist taste. Moore translated the Fables of LaFontaine. Moore became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962 Less