John Gould Fletcher, American poet and critic, died May 10, 1950. He was 64.

Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 3, 1886. He attended Harvard, but he left before graduation to travel extensively in America, Europe and England.

Returning in 1933, he and his wife, children’s author Charlie May Simon, built a home on the Arkansas River near Little Rock.

An active supporter of the arts, Fletcher was concerned with the cultural development in the South and more specifically in his home state of Arkansas.

Fletcher received the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his collection of poems called Selected Poems.

Fletcher died in Little Rock on May 10, 1950.