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Hazel Hall was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1886. and came as a young girl with her parents to Portland, where she lived until she died on May 11, 1924. Because of scarlet fever and an injury from a fall, she was never able to walk after the age of 12. For several years she did needle-work to earn a living, but at length came additional frustration to this courageous invalid in failing eyesight. It was then that the writing of verses, which had been a succor to her spirit in her shut-in life, was turned to practical account, with poetry checks from magazines taking the place of wages from sewing. Her first accepted poem was published in the Boston Transcript in 1916. Later her market broadened to include such select magazines as Century, Harper's, Literary Review, Yale Review, Outlook, Bookman and the New Republic. Her books of poems consist of two volumes published while she was living and one volume published after her death—Curtains, 1921; Walkers, 1923; and Cry of Time, 1928. "Three Girls", given below, was selected by Braithvvaite as one of the five best poems of 1920.