Biography:

Playwright; Poet. Born– Greenville, 1894. Parents– Oscar Richardson and Abbie (Flowers) Porter. Married– John C. Lewis, April, 1921 (died 1929).  Children–four.  Education– Birmingham-Southern College, A.B., 1936; University of North Carolina, M. A. in Dramatic Arts, 1939.  Served in the Red Cross and the American Motor Transport Corps in France during World War I; home service secretary, Red Cross, Butler County. Member– Birmingham Poetry Club; Poetry Society of Alabama; Alabama Writers Conclave; Birmingham Writers Club. Died 1993.

Source:

Alabama Folk Plays; files at Birmingham Public Library.

Publication(s):

Alabama Folk Plays. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1943.