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Helen Steiner Rice

American poet

"Helen Rice" redirects here. For the Irish tennis player (1866-1907), see Lena Rice.

Helen Steiner Rice
Born	Helen Steiner (1900-05-19)May 19, 1900 Lorain, Ohio
Died	April 23, 1981(1981-04-23) (aged 80) Lorain, Ohio
Occupation	Businesswoman, poet
Nationality	American
Genre	Christian poetry

Helen Steiner Rice (May 19, 1900 – April 23, 1981) was an American writer of both inspirational and Christian poetry.

Biography

Helen Steiner was born in Lorain, Ohio on May 19, 1900. Her father, a railroad worker, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager, which was rare for a woman at that time. She also became the Ohio State Chairwoman of the Women's Public Information Committee of the Electric Light Association, and campaigned for women's rights and improved working conditions.^[1]

In 1929, she married Franklin Dryden Rice, a bank vice-president in Dayton, Ohio. After the stock market crash in October that year,

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Helen Elaine Steiner Rice (May 19, 1900 - April 23, 1981) was an American poet who wrote religious and inspirational poetry.^[1]

Life[]

She was born Helen Steiner in Lorain, Ohio on May 19, 1900. Her father, a railroad worker, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager, which was rare for a woman at that time. She also became the Ohio State Chairman of the Women's Public Information Committee of the Electric Light Association, and campaigned for women's rights and improved working conditions.^[2]

In 1929 she married Franklin Dryden Rice, a bank vice-president in Dayton, Ohio. After the stock market crash in October that year, Franklin lost his job and his investments. He fell into a depression from which he never recovered, and committed suicide in 1932.^[2]^[3]

Rice became a successful businesswoman and lecturer, but found her most satisfying outlet in writing verse for the greeting card company Gibson Greetings. Her poems received wide exposure i

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Helen Steiner Rice-The Healing Tough: Poems, Letters, and Life Stories

Ronald Pollitt. Fleming H. Revell Company, $17.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-8007-1750-6

Helen Steiner Rice's life could probably be summed up in the fact that she always met every circumstance with a grateful heart, trusting that God worked out all things for the best. Pollitt and Wiltse draw upon Rice's poems, letters and anecdotes to tell the poet's life story. Rice bore many adversities in her life, including the suicide of her young husband and a painful degenerative disease that led to her infirmity. Yet, as the authors demonstrate, Rice met these adversities with an enduring confidence in God's love and providence, and such attitudes are abundant in her poetry and letters. In addition to recounting Rice's biography, the authors also include testimonies of those influenced by her life and work. The book is divided into six sections dealing with healing the pain of loss, adversity, loneliness, depression, disability and infirmity. In each section, Rice's elegant poetry acts as a light shining through the darkn