Angelo Meriwether: Meet Louise Meriwether’s first husband

Famous American author Louise Meriwether was born in the United States on May 8, 1923. After completing her high school education at Manhattan’s Central Commercial High School, she continued her education at night while working as a secretary to earn her B.A. in English from New York University.

She later transferred with her first husband, Los Angeles teacher Angelo Meriwether, to the University of California, Los Angeles, where she went on to receive an M.A. in journalism in 1965. Despite the fact that this marriage, along with her second marriage to Earle Howe, ended in divorce, she kept the name Meriwether.

She was the first black woman employed as a story editor in Hollywood and worked as a freelance reporter for the Los Angeles Sentinel from 1961 to 1964. From 1965 to 1967, she worked for Universal Studios as a black story analyst.

Angelo Meriwether: Meet Louise Meriwether’s first husband

Meriwether traveled to Los Angeles and worked as a journalist for the Los Angeles Sentinel after completing her bachelor’s degree and wed her first husband, Angelo Meriwether. She developed her love of writing during this time, met writers, and interviewed them.