She was a prize - winning and published poet and author , and from 1926 to 1946 , a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Abilene , Texas .
Besides being a writer and poet , she was also an amateur painter .
painter was a prize - winning and published painter and author , and from 1926 to 1946 , a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Abilene , Texas .
Besides being a writer and poet , she was also an amateur painter .