Louise McNeill Pease

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Louise McNeill Pease

• Poet Laureate of West Virginia

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Beginnings

• Born at Buckeye in Pocahontas County on June
  9,1911.
• Louise was born on the 200 acre farm that had
  been in the family since 1769

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Early Life
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Education

• Louise started writing poetry when she was 16
  years old.
• She graduated from Concord College.
• Louise did post-graduate work at Ohio University.

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• Louise received her Masters degree from West
  Virginia University in 1959.
• She earned a Ph. D. in history.
• She taught for 35 years.

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Published
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Louise has her poetry published

• 1939, Louises collection of poetry is published
  by Harcourt Brace.
• The title of her first book was Gauley Mountain

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Other Publications
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• Time is Our House, 1942
• Poems From the Hills, 1971
• Paradox Hill, 1972
• Elderberry Flood, 1979
• The Milkweed Ladies,1988

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Articles

• Published in The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers,
  Poetry, The Saturday Review.
• Published fiction in The Farm Journal and essays
  in Northwest Review and Appalachian Heritage.

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Poet Laureate of West Virginia

• Louise was named Poet Laureate by Governor Jay
  Rockefeller.
• She was Poet Laureate from February 26,1979 to
  June 28,1993

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Other Awards

• West Virginian of the Year, 1985
• Recipient of the Appalachian Golden Medallion,
  1988
• West Virginia University Alumni of the Year, 1989

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Ending

• Louise died on June 16,1993, at her home in
  Malden.
• She is buried in Buckeye, Pocahontas County.