6 Famous people born and / or spent a significant part of his life in Mississippi
6 CHARACTERS
Who were born or spent a significant part of their lives
MISSISSIPPI
William Cuthbert Falkner - who later changed the spelling of "faulkner" (September 25, 1897) was a Nobel Prize winning author. It is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He has written novels, short stories, and was also a poet and writer. Born and raised Mississippi, State of Mississippi a great influence on his writings – most of his works are presented in the state. Some of his most famous novels are The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Light in August. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, for "his powerful and unique contribution art to the modern American novel. "He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for A Fable (1955) and The Reivers (1963) compiled Falkner stories earned him two National Book Awards. And in 1987 the U.S. Postal Service issued the 22 cent stamp in his honor. He died in Byhalia, Mississippi on July 6, 1962 at the age of 64.
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925) Born in Decatur, Mississippi. He was an American civil rights activist. He attended what is now Alcorn State University. Evers specialized in administration company, was on the debate team, played football and ran track. He also sang in the choir was junior class president. He was named NAACP field secretary first in Mississippi in 1954.
He was involved in a boycott against white merchants and was instrumental in the eventual desegregatin University Mississippi. On June 12, 1963, Evers was murdered in his own driveway. He was 37.
JAMES H. MEREDITH a prominent civil rights figure was born on June 25, 1933, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Immediately after high school, he joined U.S. Air Force and served from 1951 to 1960. He attended Jackson State College for two years and then applied to the (then segregated) from the University of Mississippi. He is best known as the school's first black student in 1962.
Mary Ann Mobley was Miss America in 1959, the first Mississippi to win this title. She was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on February 17, 1939. He has also appeared in films and TV shows like Fantasy Island, Mission Impossible, and The Love Boat
RAY is john grisham a writer of legal thrillers. He was born on February 8, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The family moved frequently because his father's work, finally settling in Southaven, Mississippi. He graduated from high school in Southaven and obtained a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Mississippi State University. He also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983 and served until 1990. He has written many legal fiction and nonfiction-legal. There are 13 movies listed based on their books. He and his family divide their time living near Oxford, Mississippi, near Charlottesville, Virginia.
Brett Lorenzo Favre is a quarterback football for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. Born in Gulport, Mississippi on October 10, 1969, and grew up in the oven. His ancestry is French / Choctaw. He was selected by Atlanta Falcons in 1991, then played 16 seasons for the Green Bay Packers (1992-2007), came out of retirement to play for the New York Jets (2008) and he has been with the Vikings from 2009 to the present.
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william faulkner : Novels 1942-1954 : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable (Library of America) $18.99 The years 1942 to 1954 saw Faulkner’s greatest success–and greatest inner anguish. Plagued by depression and alcohol, he knew he had more to achieve and a finite amount of time and energy to achieve it. This volume gathers four groundbreaking works from this fascinating period. “Go Down, Moses” is a haunting novel that explores the intertwined lives of black, white, and Indian inhabitants of Yokn… |
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Faulkner $35 William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre- eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding of the region's promises and problems. His experiments and inventions in form and style have influenced generations of writers. Originally published in 1974 as a two-volume edition and extensively updated and condensed in a 1991 reissue, Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A biography remains the quintessential resource on the Nobel laureate's life and work. The Chicago Tribune said, "This is an overwhelming book, indispensable for anyone interested in the life and works of our greatest contemporary novelist." That invaluable 1991 edition is now back in print. Blotner, a friend and one-time colleague of Faulkner's, brings a vivid, personalized tone to the biography, as well as a sense of masterful, comprehensive scholarship. Using letters, inter-views, reminiscences, critical work, and other primary sources, Blotner creates a detailed and nuanced portrait of Faulkner from his birth to his death. The revision of the original 1974 biogra-phy incorporates commentary on the plethora of Faulkner criticism, family memoirs, and post-humously published works that appeared in the wake of the first version. It also examines collections of letters and other materials that only came to light after the original publication. Featuring a detailed chronology of Faulkner's life and a genealogical chart of his family, Faulkner is authoritative and essential both for literary scholars and for anyone wanting to know about the life of one of the nation's foremost authors. Blotner's masterpiece is the template for all biographical work on the acclaimed writer. Joseph Blotner, Charlottesville, Virginia, is professor emeritus of English at University of Michigan and the author of several books, including Robert Penn Warren: A Biography, The Modern American Political Novel, and The Fiction of J. D. Salinger. His work has appeared in the New York Times book review, Yale Review, American Literature, and else-where. |
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Faulkner and Race $25 The essays in this volume address William Faulkner and the issue of race. Faulkner resolutely has probed the deeply repressed psychological dimensions of race, asking in novel after novel the perplexing question: what does blackness signify in a predominantly white society? However, Faulkner's public statements on the subject of race have sometimes seemed less than fully enlightened, and some of his black characters, especially in the early fiction, seem to conform to white stereotypical notions of what black men and women are like. These essays, originally presented by Faulkner scholars, black and white, male and female, at the 1986 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, the thirteenth in a series of conferences held on the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi, explore the relationship between Faulkner and race.With essays byEric J. SundquistCraig WernerBlyden JacksonThadious DavisPamela J. RhodesWalter TaylorNoel PolkJames A. SneadPhilip M. WeinsteinLothar HoumlnnighausenFrederick R. KarlHoke PerkinsSergei ChakovskyMichael GrimwoodKarl F. Zender |
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Reading Faulkner $25 Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." On another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls the entire Sutpen family and that tragedy's legacy that continues well into the twentieth century and beyond. The novel's intricate, demanding prose style, and its haunting dramatization of the South's intricate, demanding history make it a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature. Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! offers a close examination and interpretation of the novel. Here difficult words and cultural terms that might prove to be a problem for general readers are explained and keyed to page numbers in the definitive Faulkner text (Library of America and Vintage editions). The authors place Faulkner's novel in its historical context, while also connecting it to his other works. |
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Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction $25 In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, "I'm telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That's all a writer ever does, he tells his own biography in a thousand different terms."With these words, Faulkner suggests that what changes in the course of his prolific novel-writing career is not so much the content but the style, "the thousand different terms" of his fiction. The essays in Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction, first presented at the 1987 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi, focus on Faulkner's narrative inventiveness, on how Faulkner, like his character Benjy in The Sound and the Fury, relentlessly kept "trying to say."The contributors, authorities on Faulkner's narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner's fiction-writing process. Cleanth Brooks, for example, applies the strategies of New Criticism to Faulkner's rendering of the heroic and pastoral modes; Judith L. Sensibar attempts to locate biographical sources for repeated Faulknerian paradigms; and Philip M. Weinstein draws on the theories of the Marxist Althusser and the French psychoanalyst Lacan. The topics examined are similarly wide-ranging. |
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Faulkner and the Ecology of the South $25 In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as "the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between man and his environment.". The essays collected in Faulkner and the Ecology of the South explore Faulkner's environmental imagination, seeking what Ann Fisher-Wirth calls the "ecological counter-melody" of his texts. "Ecology" was not a term in common use outside the sciences in Faulkner's time. However, the word "environment" seems to have held deep meaning for Faulkner. Often he repeated his abiding interest in "man in conflict with himself, with his fellow man, or with his time and place, his environment.". Eco-criticism has led to a renewed interest among literary scholars for what in this volume Cecelia Tichi calls, "humanness within congeries of habitats and en-vironments." Philip Weinstein draws on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus. Eric Anderson argues that Faulkner's fiction has much to do with ecology in the sense that his work often examines the ways in which human communities interact with the natural world, and François Pitavy sees Faulkner's wilderness as unnatural in the ways it represents reflections of man's longings and frustrations. Throughout these essays, scholars illuminate in fresh ways the precarious ecosystem of Yoknapatawpha County. Joseph R. Urgo, Oxford, Mississippi, is chair of the English department at the University of Mississippi. His books include Faulkner's Apocrypha , Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Cultu re, and In the Age of Distraction , all published by University Press of Mississippi. Ann J. Abadie, Oxford, is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. She has coedited Faulkner and His Contemporaries , Faulkner and War , Faulkner and Postmodernism , and Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect , among other Faulkner volumes, all published by University Press of Mississippi. |