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Poet Laureate       

Bennie Lee Sinclair         
1939-2000        

Bennie Lee Sinclair (Mrs. Don Lewis),  has been appointed to serve as South Carolina's Poet Laureate by Governor Richard W. Riley, under authority of Joint Resolution No. 736 of 1934.

*  She wrote two volumes of poetry, Little Chicago Suite, and The Arrowhead Scholar

*  She is from Greenville County, she is a native writer and poet.

*  She wrote about people and places of the countryside she has known all her life.