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On
This Day in Mississippi Literary
History
April
April
1 |
1925: Writer Nathaniel Pace was born in Stone County, Mississippi.
1940: The Hamlet, by William
Faulkner, was published by Random House.
1993: Writer Joseph Alexander died following a severe burn in
a household fire in San Francisco, California.
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April
2 |
1932: Walker Percys
mother was killed in an automobile accident. Percy was fifteen years old.
1937: Historian Ray Mathis was born in Sanford, Mississippi.
1946: Historian Lee E. Williams II was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1953: The Brooch, a teleplay written by William
Faulkner, Ed Rice, and Richard McDonagh and based on Faulkners
story, was broadcast on Lux Video Theatre.
1961: William Faulkner
arrived in Venezuela on a two-week State Department trip.
1972: Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee
Williams opened at Truck and Warehouse Theatre in New York. The play
ran for 200 performances as a commercial but not a critical success.
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April
3 |
1944: Science writer Frank White was born in Greenwood, Mississippi.
1965: Muna Lee died
of lung cancer in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two months after retiring from her
position in the U.S. State Department.
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April
4 |
1911: Theologian H. Leo Eddleman was born in Morgantown, Mississippi.
1940: Historian Eric N. Moody was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1997: Poet Otis Williams,
director of the Nyumburu Cultural Center at the University of Maryland, died
suddenly in College Park, Maryland, at the age of 57.
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April
5 |
1925: William Faulkner
published Cheest in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1937: Historian James W. Hammack Jr. was born in Scooba, Mississippi.
1981: Journalist Mark Foster Ethridge died after several strokes
in Chatham County, North Carolina.
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April
6 |
1862: The Battle of Shiloh, the first major battle in the western theater
of the American Civil War, began near Pittsburgh Landing along the Tennessee
River, a few miles north of Corinth, Mississippi. The attacking Confederates
on this first day were initially victorious, pushing Union troops under the
command of Ulysses S. Grant back to a line of defenses near the river, although
the Confederate commanding general, Albert Sidney Johnston, was hit in the leg
and bled to death as his personal surgeon attended to other wounded.
1942: Historian John Worthington Jeffries was born in Oxford,
Mississippi.
1951: Journalist Frank
Trippett married Betty Timberlake.
1953: Childrens author Jerdine Nolen was born in Crystal
Springs, Mississippi.
1955: The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories by Eudora
Welty was published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in New York.
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April
7 |
1862: The Battle of Shiloh concluded with a Union counterattack that
overwhelmed Confederate forces under General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who succeeded
Albert Sidney Johnston as commander after his death on the first day of the
battle. The Confederate forces retreated to Corinth, Mississippi, and then to
Tupelo, Mississippi.
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April
8 |
1916: English professor John H. Long was born in Carthage, Mississippi.
1967: The Wishing Tree, by William
Faulkner, was published in the Saturday Evening Post.
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April
9 |
1682: Following a journey down the Mississippi River from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claimed the entire
Mississippi River watershed for France and named it Louisiana in honor of King
Louis XIV.
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April
10 |
1732: The Mississippi Company, bankrupted by the long struggle with the
Natchez, surrendered its charter and was reverted to direct control by the crown.
1939: Historian Jimmie Lewis Franklin was born in Moscow, Mississippi.
2000: A new play by Beth
Henley, Family Week, opened at the Off-Broadway Century Theatre
for the Performing Arts in New York, starring Angelina Phillips, Rose Gregorio,
and Carol Kane, and directed by Ulu Grosbard. It closed after one week.
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April
11 |
1819: Southwestern humorist Joseph
Beckham Cobb was born near Lexington, Georgia.
1951: Fiction writer Kay Sloan was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
2004: Writer Joan Williams
died at the age of 75.
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April
12 |
1921: Carolyn Bennett Patterson, a writer and editor for National
Geographic, was born in Laurel, Mississippi.
1925: William Faulkner
published Out of Nazareth in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1933: The film Today We Live, based on the short story Turnabout
by William Faulkner,
premiered in Oxford at the Lyric Theatre.
1951: William Faulkner
left for a three-week trip to France and England.
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April
13 |
1909: Eudora Welty
was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1924: Kelly Rollins, a U.S. Air Force officer and author of the
novel Fighter Pilots, was born in Grenada, Mississippi.
1944: Film director, producer, and screenwriter Charles Burnett
was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 1970: Losing Battles by Eudora
Welty was published by Random House, New York.
1988: Biology professor Joseph J. Schwab died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
2012: Novelist Lewis Nordan died of complications from pneumonia in Cleveland, Ohio.
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April
14 |
1929: Historian Charles T. Davis was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
1959: I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix, Tennessee
Williams biographical account of D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda,
opened at Theatre de Lys, New York.
1968: Boys in the Band by Mart
Crowley was first produced Off-Broadway at Theatre Four in New York
City.
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April
15 |
1946: Delta Wedding by Eudora
Welty was published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in New York.
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April
16 |
1934: William Faulkner
published Doctor Martino and Other Stories.
1943: Writer and psychologist C. Rayfield Haynes was born in
Prentiss, Mississippi.
1964: David Edgar
Guyton died.
2000: Family Week by
Beth Henley closes after one week of performances at the Off-Broadway
Century Theatre for the Performing Arts in New York.
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April
17 |
1947: Insurance writer and newspaper columnist John E. Gregg
married Sue Burke.
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April
18 |
1910: Jamie L. Whitten, U.S. Congressman and author of That
We May Live, was born in Cascilla, Mississippi.
1918: Estelle Oldham, future wife of William
Faulkner, married her first husband, Cornell Franklin, in Oxford, Mississippi.
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April
19 |
1931: Poet Etheridge
Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi.
1962: William Faulkner
went on a two-day visit to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
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April
20 |
1933: A Green Bough, a book of poetry by William
Faulkner, was published.
1937: Tennessee
Williams received notification from Washington University that he would
not graduate and was placed on academic probation.
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April
21 |
1936: Theologian Daniel C. Noel was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1938: Educator Chalmers Archer, Jr., was born in Tchula, Mississippi.
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April
22 |
1702: Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur dIberville, who led a French expedition
to establish a settlement in present-day Mississippi, returned to France, never
to return to Louisiana.
1896: Journalist Mark Foster Ethridge was born in Meridian, Mississippi.
1932: Methodist minister William R. Lampkin was born in Baldwyn,
Mississippi.
1934: Henry T. Sampson, who has researched the role of African
Americans in entertainment, was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
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April
23 |
1800: The U.S. Congress established a post route between Nashville,
Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi, along what became known as the Natchez
Trace.
1942: Novelist Barry Hannah
was born in Meridian, Mississippi.
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April
24 |
1807: J. F. H. Claiborne,
the father of Mississippi history, was born near Natchez, Mississippi.
1925: Leon M. C. Standifer, who published memoirs about his combat
experience in World War II, was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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April
25 |
1935: The novel Pylon, by William
Faulkner, was published by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas.
1940: Novelist Margaret-Love
Denman was born in Oxford, Mississippi.
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April
26 |
1925: William Faulkner
published The Kingdom of God in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1943: Cookbook author Mary Lou McCracken was born in Louisville,
Mississippi.
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April
27 |
1929: English professor Ernest Claude Bufkin, Jr., was born in
Monticello, Mississippi.
1973: The Grassroot Woman, a one-act play by T. J. Whitaker,
was first performed in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at Baltes Gym.
1983: Journalist Turner Catledge died after suffering a stroke
in New Orleans.
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April
28 |
1945: In the novel Cliffords Blues, by John
A. Williams, the diary kept by the title character, who is a prisoner
in the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, ends, the same day that the camp was
liberated by American forces.
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April
29 |
1910: Philosopher W. T. Jones was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
1945: Richard Wrights
Black Boy was the number one bestseller in the nation. Later, U.S. Senator
Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi would denounce the book as obscene.
1946: William Faulkner
published Appendix, Compson, 1699-1945 in The Portable Faulkner.
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April
30 |
1906: Entomologist Ross Elliot Hutchins was born in Ruby, Montana.
1927: William Faulkners
novel Mosquitoes was published.
1928: Childrens writer Jean Burt Polhamus was born in Mississippi.
1930: William Faulkner
published A Rose for Emily in Forum.
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