Lawrence Lee (1938-1942)

Lee was a poet best known for his poetic treatment of the life of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and Other Poems (1937) and The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson and Other Poems (1940), both published during his editorship of VQR. In 1942, Lee left Virginia to join the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where he remained until his retirement in 1973. For the last five years of his life, he was a contributing columnist for the Pittsburgh Press.