Samuel Minturn Peck

In 1865, the family moved to Illinois before returning to Tuscaloosa two years later, where his father became a justice for the state Supreme Court.

He published several more books of verse, earning him a reputation as an unpretentious author of vers de société.

[4] Upon the publication of his second book, one critic praised his "light verse, admirably written" and his "simple melodies" that were "rhythmically smooth".

"[6] Peck showed an obvious dislike of less traditional poetic forms and privately noted his dislike for more Avant Garde poets including Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Harriet Monroe, and fellow Alabama writer Clement Wood, whom he satirized in his poem "The Poet and the Pixie".

In the 1890s, he attempted to replicate the success of local color stories by writers like Mary Noailles Murfree, Thomas Nelson Page, and Joel Chandler Harris, and published 25 such works in Alabama Sketches (1902).