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Of the southern states, Mississippi has one of the richest literary traditions.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. The first of four sons born to Murry and Maud …<
Walker Alexander Percy, a writer who was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, was born on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama. Cynthia Shearer
… Vietnam War. In 1980, Shearer moved to Oxford, Mississippi and worked toward a PhD in English at the University of Mississippi. At …
Born, Thomas Lanier Williams, in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911, Tennessee Williams was the first of two children born into a prestigious Tennessee family. …
… The Celestial Jukebox, Cynthia Shearer’s second novel, is a journey into the fictitious town of Madagascar, Mississippi. The …
Born April 13, 1909, Eudora Welty was a life-long resident of Jackson, Mississippi, and daughter of parents from the North, (Ohio, and West Virginia). …
… She moved to Tougaloo, Mississippi in the mid-1960’s. … She moved to Tougaloo, Mississippi in the mid-1960’s and gave birth to her daughter. …
… Shelby Foote. Shelby Dade Foote, Jr., was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on November 17, 1916, While in high school, he served as editor of The Pica. …
Eudora Welty’s The Optimists Daughter
… They looked at him, with his wife Becky and daughter Laurel, and they felt good: that was how well-bred people in Mount Salus, Mississippi, ought to be.
Steve Yarbrough was born … in Indianola, Mississippi, … attended and graduated from Indianola Academy in 1975… and the University of Mississippi.
…grew up in McComb and Gulfport, Mississippi. She holds degrees from the University of Mississippi…
…Barry Hannah was born in Clinton, Mississippi in April of 1942…Hannah returned to Mississippi in 1983 for a position of Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, where he has remained ever since.
…spent much of her childhood in Mississippi.
Written by: JC Robertson
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