39adamstrand:In May 1939, 53-year-old John Gould Fletcher learned that he had received the Pulitzer
39adamstrand:In May 1939, 53-year-old John Gould Fletcher learned that he had received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Selected Poems (1938). He was the first Southern poet to receive the prize, but despite the prestigious award and induction into the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Fletcher’s writing failed to find an audience. His last collection of poems, The Burning Mountain (1946), also failed to sell and he turned to an impressionistic history of his home state, but Arkansas (1947), attracted little attention out of the state.Fletcher, who had struggled with depression in his life, grew increasingly despondent as his work failed to find an audience, and as his chronic arthritis (which had been diagnosed in 1936) worsened and on 10 May 1950, the 64-year-old Fletcher drowned himself in a shallow pond near his home in Little Rock, AR. -- source link
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