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Mississippi Writers Trail – Anne Moody

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A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement, Anne Moody was born in 1940 in Wilkinson County near Centreville. In her classic 1968 memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, she articulates what it was like to grow up in poverty, to suffer racial discrimination, and to fight for social change as a civil rights activist.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Julia Reed

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Julia Reed, a native of Greenville, is known for her irreverent take on politics and for finding humor in the human condition, particularly in the South. She was a longtime editor and writer for Vogue and has authored numerous books and magazine articles.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Natasha Trethewey

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Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey, is a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Mississippi Poet Laureate, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, Trethewey’s poems elegize, document, and provide testaments of personal and public histories that have been forgotten, ignored, or erased.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Endesha Ida Mae Holland

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Holland joined the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, volunteering for SNCC. Her efforts in helping black people register to vote landed her in jail multiple times. Her play, Dr. Holland’s Second Doctor Lady, became the source material for her autobiographical play, From the Mississippi Delta, and her memoir of the same title.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Mary Garrard

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Indianola native, Mary Garrard, is an art historian who is recognized as one of the founders of feminist art theory. She is particularly known for her work on the Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. […]

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Stark Young

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Throughout Stark Young’s fifty-year career, the author produced works of poetry, drama, literature, criticism, and painting. His most popular work of fiction, So Red the Rose, was published in 1934 and later adapted as a movie. […]

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Willie Morris

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Willie Morris was editor for the Texas Observer and later became editor-in-chief of Harper’s Magazine in New York. In 1980, Morris returned to Mississippi to become writer-in-residence at Ole Miss. Notable among his twenty-three award-winning books are North Toward Home, Yazoo, and My Dog Skip.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Richard Ford

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Richard Ford won critical acclaim with his first two novels, A Piece of My Heart (1976), and The Ultimate Good Luck (1981). Ford is the author of The Sportswriter, a book that brought him international acclaim and was named one of Time magazine’s top-100 novels.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Dorothy Shawhan

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Enlivened by a sense of humor and wild imagination, Dorothy Shawhan’s stories could conjure up Faulkner’s ghost or depict contemporary pilgrims telling tales on a trip to Memphis. In three carefully researched biographies, she retrieves the lives of lesser-known Mississippi women, and in her novel Lizzie she imagines the life of another.

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Eudora Welty

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One of Mississippi’s most acclaimed writers, Eudora Welty was honored with a Pulitzer Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the French Legion of Honor. Eudora Welty typically drew inspiration from her home state for her fictional stories. […]

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Richard Wright

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Wright published his first story at sixteen, and in 1940 he achieved national fame with his best-selling novel, Native Son. Arguably one of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, the novel was adapted for film and stage. […]

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Mississippi Writers Trail – Tennessee Williams

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The world-renowned playwright Tennessee Williams set some of his greatest dramas, including Summer and Smoke, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Orpheus Descending, in the Mississippi Delta, while others of his plays —notably The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire – were filled with Delta characters and memories of the region.

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