Born: 01/08/1898   Choctow
Died: 03/11/1961
Parents: Commodore and Frankie Ellen (Smith) Wilson
Spouse: Laurentia “Lenny” Lyman (1)/remarried twice
Children: Libbyann; William Keene; Lenny Lou and Mary Ellen; Perry (with third wife, Mary Margaret Burnett McGregor Wilson)
Address(es):
Last known address:
Ann Arbor , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Dark and the Damp - Autobiography of the American coal digger and poet. winner of the 1951 Avery Hopwood Award in American Literature	Biography	Adult		1951
	The Black Diamonds	Poetry	Adult	Exposition Press	1947
	Pan with a Pick	Poetry	Adult	Exposition Press	1930

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MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search/a?searchtype=X&searcharg=john+minnich+wilson&SORT=D&submit.x=33&submit.y=10

http://coalminerspoet.blogspot.com/

Known nationwide as “the Coal Miners Poet”.

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