Curry, Peggy Simson
1911 - 1987
Natrona County
Biographical and Professional Information
Eighty years before Peggy Simpson Curry was inducted posthumously into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, she left her native Scotland for North Park, Colorado, where her father had been hired by the Big Horn Cattle Company. By the age of 12, she learned to drive a hay rake and helped her mother cook for a 20-man haying crew. Long before she was honored by Gov. Ed Herschler as Wyoming's first poet laureate, she wrote about her life on the ranch, primarily from the male point of view. Two of her short stories won Spur Awards and the honors and kudos that came her way included "Peggy Simson Curry Day" in Walden, Colorado, every April 13 until her death in 1987. She and her husband Bill moved to Casper where he taught at Casper College and served in the Wyoming legislature. Peggy taught in the "Poetry in the Schools Program" as well as creative writing courses at Casper College. The couple lived on Casper Mountain. (Source: Westerners by Jean Henry-Mead)
Genres
Children's or Young Adult
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Western
Wyoming Subjects
Titles
- LandMarked: Stories of Peggy Simson Curry (1992). Glendo, WY: High Plains Press. ISBN: 0931271177.
- Summer Range (1981). Story, WY: Dooryard Press. ISBN: 0937160059.
- A Shield of Clover (1970). New York: D. McKay. ISBN: (?).
- Creating Fiction from Experience (1964). Boston, MA: The Writer Inc. ISBN: (?).
- The Oil Patch (1959). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: (?).
- So Far from Spring: A novel (1956). New York: Viking Press. ISBN: (?).
- Red Wind of Wyoming (1955). Denver, CO: Sage Publishing. ISBN: (?).
- Fire in the Water (1951). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: (?).
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