Background
Drewry, Guy Carleton was born on May 21, 1901 in Stevensburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Review Samuel Richard andJulia Harriett (Pinckard) D.
Drewry, Guy Carleton was born on May 21, 1901 in Stevensburg, Virginia, United States. Son of Review Samuel Richard andJulia Harriett (Pinckard) D.
Student public schools Virginia.
Statistician, Norfolk & Western Runway, 44 years Association editor The Lyric, 1929-1949. Visiting lecturer English, American poetry Hollins College, 1952-1953. Instructor creative writing University of Virginia Extension Division Named Poet Laureate of Commonwealth of Virginia for life, 1970.
Contributor poetry to The Dial, later The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry.
A Magazine of Verse also Voices. Work appeared in New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Sat.
Review, Queen"s Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, YaleRev. Included in following anthologies: American Writing, Lyric Virginia Today, Moult"s Best Poems, Virginia Reader, Poetry Awards (1949, 51), Lyric Virginia Today, Northern 2, The Best Poems of 1956.
Author: (poetry) Proud Horns, 1933, The Sounding Summer, 1948.
A Time for Turning, 1951 (Poetry Awards Foundation prize 1952), The Writhen Wood, 1953, Cloud Above Clocktime, 1957, (lyrics) To Love that Well, 1975. EditorSouthern Issue of Voices. Winner The Voices award, 1940.
Member Poetry Society Virginia (president 1952-1955), Poetry Society of America (regional vice president). Died August 3, 1991.
Married Margaret Elizabeth McDonald, April 2, 1942. Children: Barbara Louise, Guy Carleton.