Frank Trippett was born
July 1, 1926, in Columbus, Mississippi, and grew up in Aberdeen,
Mississippi. He attended Mississippi College, Duke University, and
the University of Mississippi. Trippetts first job as a journalist
was with the Meridian (Mississippi) Star. He fell in love
with journalism, which he later called, that trade that was
designed in heaven for those of us who are unsuited for useful employment.
Trippett worked for the Fredericksburg (Virginia) Free Lance-Star,
and was the Capital Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg (Florida)
Times before joining Newsweek
magazine as an associate editor in 1961. He was a senior editor
at Look magazine and a senior writer and essayist for Time
magazine.
His writing won awards from the National
Headliner Club, the National Bar Association and the American Political
Science Association. Trippett is the author of the nonfiction books
The States, United They Fell (1967) and The First Horsemen
(1974), as well as the novel Child Ellen (1975). His
essays have been anthologized in numerous college writing textbooks.
His most recent book, Hymning & Hawing
About America (2000), published by Xlibris (www.xlibris.com),
is the first comprehensive collection of his essays. The subjects
of his essays range from politics and personalities to social conditions
and psychological phenomena. It is a brilliant look in the rear
view mirror at the American scene during the twentieth century.
Frank Trippett has been called one
of the really mind-blowing talents of his generation as a journalist,
essayist, and story teller.
Trippett and his wife Betty lived and raised
their four children in Larchmont, New York, until his death at the
age of 71 on June 18, 1998.
(Article first
posted January 2002)
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Publications
Fiction:
Child Ellen. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,
1975.
Nonfiction:
The States: United They Fell. Cleveland: World Pub.
Co., 1967.
The First Horsemen. New York: Time-Life Books, 1974.
Hymning & hawing about America: A Few Symbol-Minded Essays.
Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2000.
1976: Journalist, historian, and fiction writer George W. Lee
died.
1998: Educator James C. Atherton died in Senatobia, Mississippi.
Aug. 2
1911: Photographer, composer, and writer John Seymour Erwin was
born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1925:William Faulkner
arrived in Genoa, Italy. He would travel through Italy and Switzerland before
eventually settling in Paris until his return home in December.
1939: Novelist Charles
Wilson was born in Kennett, Missouri.
1950:William Faulkners
Collected Stories was published by Random House.
1954:A Fable, a novel by William
Faulkner, was published by Random House.
1997:Frank E. Smith, a former U.S. Congressman, newspaper editor,
TVA administrator, and educator, died from complications of a stroke in Jackson,
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1999: Journalist and fiction writer Willie
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1946: Novelist Howard
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Aug. 4
1915: Educator James C. Atherton was born in Bolivar, Louisiana.
Aug. 5
1850: Southwestern humorist Henry
Clay Lewis drowned while crossing a swamp on a medical journey.
1917: Educator and playwright Thomas D. Pawley, III, was born
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1925:William Faulkner
published “Home” and “Episode,” both in the New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
Aug. 17
1974: Novelist Larry Brown
married Mary Annie Coleman.
Aug. 18
1934: English professor Calvin S. Brown married Irene M. Hughes.
1949:The Golden Apples by Eudora
Welty was published by Harcourt, Brace.
Aug. 19
1923: Fiction writer Martha
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1951: English professor Donald R. Dickson was born in Biloxi,
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Aug. 20
1873: Katherine McDowell, best known for works published under the name
Sherwood Bonner, left
her husband Edward to earn her own way after it became clear he could not support
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1935: Playwright and screenwriter Mart
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1951: Writer and photographer Birney Imes was born in Columbus,
Mississippi.
1954:William Faulkners
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Mississippi.
1944: Medical writer Donald M. Vickery was born in Brookhaven,
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1973:Flags in the Dust, an uncut version of the novel Sartoris
by William Faulkner,
was published for the first time by Random House, more than 40 years after the
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1930: Theologian Harmon L. Smith was born in Ellisville, Mississippi.
1939: Fiction writer Lewis
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1942: Medical doctor and writer John M. Smith was born in Laurel,
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1982: Historian George C. Osborn died.
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1939: Political scientist Harold R. Rodgers, Jr., was born in
Columbus, Mississippi.
1960:William Faulkner
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1989: The opera Pamelia, libretto by Linda
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1977: Singer and writer Jimmy
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1992: Spanish professor Reginald C. Reindorp died in Purvis,
Mississippi.
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Aug. 29
1921:Eudora Welty,
age 12, won $25 in “Jackie Mackie Jingles Contest.”
1982: Music composer and writer Lehman Engel died of cancer in
New York City.
2005: Hurricane Katrina landed along the Gulf Coast near Waveland,
Miss., killing thousands of people and causing billions of dollars in property
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in Minneapolis, Mississippi.
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1951: English professor W. Lawrence Hogue was born in Yazoo City,
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Mississippi.
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