Laura Riding Laura Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.She was born Laura Reichenthal in New York to a family.

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Laura Riding Laura Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.She was born Laura Reichenthal in New York to a family of Austrian Jewish immigrants, and educated at Cornell University, where she began to write poetry, more..

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“ Laura Riding: Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. #Arts and Artists

“ Laura Riding: There can be no literary equivalent to truth. #Literature

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