Record #:

11103

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Governor William B. Umstead named James Larkin Pearson of Guilford College the Poet Laureate of North Carolina on August 4, 1953. Pearson, a native of Wilkes County, has published five volumes of verse.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 2 Issue 3, Sept 1953, p1, por

Subject(s):

Poets laureate; Pearson, James Larkin, 1879-1981