The Mississippi Writers Trail

Mississippi Writers Trail – Ida B. Wells

Holly Springs

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Born to slave parents in Holly Springs, Ida B. Wells became a journalist and entrepreneur, serving as co-owner of the Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper Free Speech. Her investigative style of journalism publicized the often unreported accounts of mob lynching in the […]

Mississippi Writers Trail – Elizabeth Spencer

Carrollton

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After receiving encouragement from Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer began a long career of teaching and writing award-winning fiction. Her works are collected in the distinguished Library of America Series. […]

Mississippi Writers Trail – Walker Percy

Greenville

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Walker Percy’s first published novel, The Moviegoer, won the 1962 National Book Award. He is the author of six novels, two non-fiction books, and numerous scientific and philosophical essays. […]

Mississippi Writers Trail – Shelby Foote

Greenville

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Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was born November 17, 1916, in Greenville. He began his early career as an author publishing five works of fiction. Foote, however, will forever be remembered as a historian, particularly of Civil War history. […]

Mississippi Writers Trail – William Faulkner

Oxford

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Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, William Cuthbert Faulkner made an indelible mark on American letters by bringing a modernist literary sensibility to storytelling about his native South and life in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. […]