Peter John Leach

Leach, Peter John

86, died May 8, 2021 of complications from a fall he had last November. He was the son of Dorothy and John Herbert Leach of Ladue, MO, both deceased. He is survived by a daughter, Harriet Leach of Louisville, KY and a brother, Timothy EJ Leach of this city.

Peter was a graduate of John Burroughs School and Amherst College where he majored in English Literature. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting from Yale University and spent two years in the US Army, serving in Germany. He was married to Eleanor Winsor (now deceased) of Olney, Rhode Island, a Classics professor at Bryn Mawr College where he also taught. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Peter also won placement in the O.Henry Awards Prize Stories (circa 1970?). His novel Gone By Sundown, 2011, won a Gival Press Novel Award for best Regional Fiction, Midwest. His book of short stories Tales of Resistance was published in 1999. Peter Leach's teaching credits Include Bryn Mawr, Southern Indiana University, Washington University, Belleville Area College and St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. No memorial service is planned at Peter's request.