In 1939, Fletcher faced the fact that publishers lacked interest in his works. However, in May of 1939, Fletcher learned from an Arkansas Gazette staff member that his work Selected Poems had won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This…
Charlie May Simon and “The Story of Arkansas” (JGF-4)
On January 18, 1936, John Gould Fletcher married Charlie May Simon, a woman of literary talents in her own right. During the 1930s, she excelled in children’s literature. Many considered her children’s book Robin on the Mountain, published in 1934,…
Daisy Arbuthnot and the Agrarians (JGF-3)
In 1913, Fletcher met Florence “Daisy” Emily Goold Arbuthnot, the wife of photographer Malcolm Arbuthnot and mother of two children, Terence and Gwennie. Though Daisy was approximately ten-years older than Fletcher, she pursued him and he capitulated. This relationship was…
The Expatriate (JGF-2)
In 1906, Fletcher’s father died at the age of seventy-five, leaving Fletcher a sizable inheritance. In Fletcher’s autobiographical writings, he acknowledged that the death of his father was a major turning point in his life as it gave him financial…
John Gould Fletcher: Confederate Ghosts to Yankee Brahmins (JGF-1)
Many scholars consider John Gould Fletcher, Arkansas poet and essayist, to be among the more influential twentieth-century literary figures. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938 and participated in the literary movements of Agrarianism, Imagism, Modernism, and Romanticism that shaped twentieth-century literature.
John Gould Fletcher
John Gould Fletcher John Gould Fletcher was an influential Arkansas poet and essayist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938 and participated in the literary movements of Agrarianism, Imagism, Modernism, and Romanticism that shaped twentieth-century literature.