BOSTON (AP) – Hope Hale Davis, a writer, pioneering feminist and professor at Radcliffe College, has died of pneumonia. She was 100.

In the 1980s, Davis became a Bunting fellow at the Institute at Radcliffe, and for years taught writing in the Radcliffe Seminar Program. She continued teaching until a month before her death.

Davis died Saturday at Wingate, a physical rehabilitation center in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood.

She wrote short stories for The New Yorker, published a collection of her fiction called “A Dark Way to the Plaza” and in the 1990s, wrote a memoir titled “Great Day Coming.”

Born in Iowa City, Iowa, the youngest of five children, she later lived in New York and Washington, D.C., where she promoted feminism during World War I and the Roaring Twenties. She met Robert Gorham Davis at a workshop for radical writers in 1939, and a short time later he became her fourth husband. They remained together until he died in 1998.

While her husband taught at Harvard, they became members of the Communist Party early during World War II, but quit the party as soon as it became clear the Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression pact with Germany, her children told The Boston Globe.

In her 90s, she was named Teacher of Year at Radcliffe.

In addition to a son and daughter, Davis leaves four grandchildren. She will be cremated, and a memorial service will be held in the next month.