This Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright was related to John Sevier, the first governor of the "Volunteer State"
.... Mrs. John Gould Fletcher (Charlie May Simon), who was born 
in Drew .... Elizabeth Metzger Howard of Winter Haven, author of the prize-
winning... [DOC] [TLE] OOLAC - #Columbia_University_alumni - OOLAC   [PAR] In 1809, Blount ran for governor against former U.S. senator and frontiersman, 
William Cocke (the incumbent, John Sevier, was term-limited).