Of the southern states, Mississippi has
one of the richest literary traditions.
William Faulkner
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in
New Albany, Mississippi. The first of four sons born
to Murry and Maud ... |
Walker Percy
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Walker Alexander Percy, a writer who was raised in
Greenville, Mississippi, was born on May 28, 1916, in
Birmingham, Alabama. ... |
Cynthia Shearer
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... Vietnam War. In 1980, Shearer moved to Oxford,
Mississippi and worked toward a PhD in English at the
University of Mississippi. At ... |
Tennessee Williams
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Born, Thomas Lanier Williams, in Columbus, Mississippi,
in 1911, Tennessee Williams was the first of two children
born into a prestigious Tennessee family. ... |
Cynthia Shearer
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... The Celestial Jukebox, Cynthia Shearer’s
second novel, is a journey into the fictitious town of
Madagascar, Mississippi. The ... |
Eudora Welty
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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). ...
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Alice Walker
... 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. ...
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Shelby Foote
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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.
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Eudora Welty's
The
Optimists Daughter
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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.
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Steve
Yarbrough
Steve Yarbrough
was born ... in Indianola, Mississippi, ... attended and graduated from
Indianola Academy in 1975... and the University of Mississippi.
Bev Marshall
...grew up in
McComb and Gulfport, Mississippi. She holds degrees from the University
of Mississippi...
Barry Hannah
...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.
Michael Lee West
...spent much of her
childhood in Mississippi. |
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