About Violet McDougal
Lived 1893 – 1989 (aged 95–96). Violet McDougal was a poet.
Violet McDougal (1893–1989) was an American poet. She was the first poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma, serving from 1923 to 1931.
Biography McDougal was born in Tennessee, 1893. She attended the University of Oklahoma, the University of Missouri, and Columbia University. She went on to publish poems in The New York Times as well as in The Daily Oklahoman. McDougal was appointed by Governor Jack C. Walton in 1923. Her book, Wandering Fires: Poems (with her sister, Mary McDougal) was published in Boston by Stratford, in 1925. McDougal died in 1989.
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Who was Violet McDougal?
American poet (1893–1989)
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