Bennie Lee Sinclair (April 15, 1939 – May 22, 2000) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
[2][4] Her brother Walt (Waldo Graham Sinclair Jr., nicknamed "Buster")[2] was a 1967 graduate of The Citadel and was the inspiration for her poetry collection The Arrowhead Scholar.
In 1999, at the inauguration of Governor Jim Hodges, high winds blew her papers away, but she proceeded to recite the poem from memory.
[2] They lived most of their life on a 135-acre wildlife and plant sanctuary in the Cleveland community of Greenville County, South Carolina,[5][8] which they moved into in 1976.
[3] The Bennie Lee Sinclair Papers, 1921-2007 are housed at Special Collections and Archives at Furman University.