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…
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.
