White, Lee McBride, Jr.

   (1915–1989)

   correspondent of HPL (1932–37). White spent most of his youth in Birmingham, Ala.; he appears to have contacted HPL through WT. His chief interest was not in the weird but in Metaphysical poetry, specifically John Donne. White attended Howard College (now Samford University) in Birmingham, graduating in 1937; he worked on school publications there, sending some of them to HPL. After HPL’s death White did graduate work at Harvard and Columbia, returned to Alabama and became a journalist, served in the air force during World War II, and later worked for the Communications Workers of America. He edited The American Revolution in Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes(1975) for the U.S. Bicentennial.