Louise McNeill

Louise McNeill (January 9, 1911 – June 16, 1993), also known as Louise McNeill Pease, Her father, G. D. McNeill, was also a writer and published a collection of short stories about the forests of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and the decline of the wilderness entitled The Last Forest. She wrote her first poem at 16 on a friend's typewriter, and thereafter decided to be a poet. She published her best-known work, Gauley Mountain, in 1939. and she held the title until her death in 1993.

Works Poetry Mountain White (1931) Gauley Mountain (1939) Time Is Our House (1942) The Prison Notebook of Captain James M. McNeill, CSA (1969, 1970) Poems From the Hills (1971) Paradox Hill from Appalachia to Lunar Shore (1972) Elderberry Flood, the History, Lore and Land of West Virginia Written in Verse Form (1979, 1980) Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems (1991) Fermi Buffalo (1994)

Historical The Great Kanawha in the Old South, 1671-1861: A Study in Contradictions (1959) Microcosm and 'Magic Mountain': Interpretations of the Virginia Springs (1969, 1970)

Autobiography The Milkweed Ladies (1988)