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Davis served as a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe in the 1980s and soon became a professor of writing in the Radcliffe Seminar Program. She continued teaching until one month before her death.
As primarily a teacher of journal writing, Davis strove to walk “the thin line between helping her students work on their writing and emancipating them as people,” recalled daughter Lydia Davis of Port Ewen, N.Y.
A conscientious and invested teacher, Davis challenged her students to use language precisely to express themselves. She did not hesitate to criticize famous authors’ grammar even though she never graduated from college. Davis kept a file of grammatical mistakes from newspapers to share with her classes.
Davis was born in Iowa City, Iowa but later lived in New York and Washington D.C., promoting feminism during World War I and the Roaring ’20s. During the Depression she worked for the Agricultural Adjustment Agency and privately became a communist. Her leftist beliefs led Davis to...
Communism lost its appeal to Davis and her husband after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the nonaggression pact early in World War II,her children told the Boston Globe in 1993. But Davis remained vocal about progressive issues through her speeches and writing. She wrote magazine articles about...