Archer, Lou Ella

Arizona resident and poet.

Lou Ella Archer was born in 1891 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Although details of her life are sketchy and she considered Minnesota her home, it is known that she spent much time in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. During her years in Arizona in the 1930's, her publications Sonnets of the Southwest and Canyon Shadows were written, and she was involved in assisting Mexicans in the Phoenix area through her work for the "Friendly House". Following her marriage to Harold Elliott, she travelled in Europe and lived in New York and Washington, D.C. Her later years were evidently spent back in the Phoenix area as records indicate she was a volunteer at the Phoenix Center for the Blind and active in the American Society for the Control of Cancer. She died in 1968.

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