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This Day in Mississippi Literary History
February
Feb.
1 |
1932: William Faulkner published Once Aboard the Lugger in the Saturday Evening
Post.
1937: Baptist theologian Walter B. Shurden was born in Greenwood,
Mississippi.
1948: Political scientist Charles Lipson was born in Clarksdale,
Mississippi.
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Feb.
2 |
1909: Biology professor Joseph J. Schwab was born in Columbus,
Mississippi.
1910: Sociologist Romeo Benjamin Garrett was born in Natchez,
Mississippi.
1933: William Faulkner began taking flying lessons.
1948: Historian Charles
Reagan Wilson was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
1992: Writer and rancher Con Sellers, who wrote more than 100
novels under the pseudonyms “Robert Crane” and “Lee Raintree,”
as well as others, died in Medford, Oregon, from complications resulting from
an intestinal aneurysm.
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Feb.
3 |
1907: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hodding
Carter was born in Hammond, Louisiana.
1951: Tennessee
Williams The Rose Tattoo opened at the Martin Beck Theatre
on Broadway in New York, starring Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach.
1979: Educator and childrens book writer Charlemae Hill Rollins died.
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Feb.
4 |
1953: Novelist and journalist Ben Ames Williams died of a heart
attack in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Feb.
5 |
1948: William Ferris,
anthropologist, folklorist, and founding director of the Center for the Study
of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, was born in Vicksburg,
Mississippi.
1994: A jury in Hinds County, Mississippi, convicted white supremacist
Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 murder of civil rights activist Medgar
Evers. This was de la Beckwiths third trial; the first two in
the 1960s ended in hung juries.
2002: Publication of The Summons, a novel by John
Grisham.
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Feb.
6 |
1942: Harpers Magazine accepted Eudora
Weltys story The Wide Net for publication. It had
been previously rejected by the Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Red
Book, Country Gentleman, Ladies Home Journal, and Atlantic, among
others.
1988: Young adult fiction writer Iris Vinton died of breast cancer
in New York City.
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Feb.
7 |
1911: Football coach Glenn Ellison was born in Pittsboro, Mississippi.
1936: Poet and phsyciain John
Stone was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1954: Author and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was fatally shot by Harold Weinberg while on a drinking spree. Weinberg then stabbed Bodenheims wife Ruth to death, as well. |
Feb.
8 |
1913: Newspaper columnist Orville B. Eustis was born in Greenville,
Mississippi.
1925: William Faulkner published Mirrors of Chartres Street in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1942: Novelist Peggy Webb was born in Mooreville, Mississippi.
1944: Writer David Blagden was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.
1955: Novelist John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. |
Feb.
9 |
1930: English professor Carl E. Bain was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1931: The novel Sanctuary, by William
Faulkner, was published by Cape & Smith.
1997: The television movie Old Man, based on the novella by William Faulkner,
was broadcast on CBS.
2001: The motion picture Hannibal, sequel to Silence of the
Lambs and based on a novel by Thomas
Harris, premiered in theatres. |
Feb.
10 |
1699: Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur dIberville, leading a French expedition to establish a permanent settlement in Louisiana, first entered present-day Mississippi at Ship Island.
1913: Poet Charles Henri Ford was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
1934: William Faulkner published A Bear Hunt in the Saturday Evening Post.
1951: William Faulkners Notes on a Horsethief was published.
1993: Childrens writer Otto R. Salassi died of liver disease
in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Feb.
11 |
1941: The Atlantic Monthly accepted Eudora Weltys short story Why I Live At the P.O. for publication.
1954: Shall Not Perish, teleplay by William
Faulkner based on his story, was broadcast on Lux Video Theatre.
1969: Boys in the Band, a play by Mart
Crowley, opened in London at Wyndhams.
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Feb.
12 |
2002: A Multitude of Sins: Stories, by Richard
Ford, was published. |
Feb.
13 |
1918: Poet, professor, and U.S. Air Force officer Joseph B. Roberts,
Jr., was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
1943: William Faulkner published Shingles for the Lord in the Saturday Evening Post. |
Feb.
14 |
1871: Writer Katherine
Sherwood Bonner married Edward McDowell in Holly Springs, Mississippi. |
Feb.
15 |
1896: Writer Pearl Rivers died in an influenza epidemic in New Orleans.
1925: William Faulkner published Damon and Pythias Unlimited in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1938: The Unvanquished, a novel by William Faulkner, was published by Random House.
1957: William Faulkner went to the University of Virginia for his second semester as writer-in-residence.
1979: English professor Richmond Pugh Bond died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
Feb.
16 |
1913: Lewis W. Walt, a writer and general in the U.S. Marine
Corps, was born in Waubaunsee County, Kansas.
1938: Science fiction writer David Houston was born in Tupelo,
Mississippi.
1944: Novelist Richard
Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi. |
Feb.
17 |
1908: Sportcaster Walter Lanier “Red” Barber was
born in Columbus, Mississippi.
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Feb.
18 |
1861: Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator from Mississippi,
was inaugurated the first and only president of the Confederate States of America
in Montgomery, Alabama, a month prior to Abraham Lincolns inauguration
in Washington, D.C.
1931: Writer Abe M. Tahir, Jr., was born in Greenwood, Mississippi.
1979: Crimes of the Heart, a play by Beth
Henley, was first produced in Louisville, Kentucky, by Actors Studio.
2002: Hunting Season by Nevada
Barr was published. |
Feb.
19 |
1932: In Oxford, William
Faulkner completed work on his novel Light in August.
1945: Writer Clifton
L. Taulbert was born in Glen Allan, Mississippi.
1954: George F. Paul, a writer and specialist in antique phonographs,
was born in Oxford, Mississippi.
1960: English professor and novelist Margaret McMullan was born
in Newton, Mississippi.
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Feb.
20 |
1935: Novelist Ellen
Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1949: Jason Berry, writer and press secretary for Charles
Evers during his campaign for the Mississippi governorship in 1971, was
born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1956: Tennessee
Williams received notification from the Group Theatre in New York City
that he had been awarded $100 for three one-act plays under the title American
Blues which included Moonys Kid Dont Cry, The
Dark Room, and The Case of the Crushed Petunias. Williams
had listed his birth year as 1914 in order to qualify for the contest limited
to those aged 25 and under. He was actually 28 years old at the time.
1984: Eudora Weltys One Writers Beginnings was published by Harvard University Press in Cambridge. |
Feb.
21 |
1880: Educator David
Edgar Guyton was born in Blue Mountain, Mississippi.
1918: Frank E. Smith, a former U.S. Congressman, newspaper editor,
TVA administrator, and educator, was born in Sidon, Mississippi.
1936: Business consultant James A. Vaughan was born in Shannon,
Mississippi.
1939: Historian Steven E. Ozment was born in MacComb, Mississippi.
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Feb.
22 |
1937: Eudora Weltys
story Old Mr. Grenada was accepted for publication by the Southern
Review; the story was retitled “Old Mr. Marblehall in A Curtain
of Green.
2002: The motion picture Big Bad Love, based on the short story
collection by Larry Brown,
premiered in New York.
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Feb.
23 |
1870: The state of Mississippi was readmitted to the United States after
the Civil War, the ninth state to do so.
1943: English professor Noel
Polk was born in Picayune, Mississippi. |
Feb.
24 |
1844: The Mississippi legislature chartered the University of Mississippi, the first public institution of higher learning in the state. The university would be built in Oxford, whose townspeople had named it that in hope of attracting the state university.
1905: Novelist Alice Walworth Graham was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
1983: Playwright Tennessee
Williams choked to death at age 71 on the cap of an eyedropper he probably
mistook for a sleeping pill at the Hotel Elysée in New York City. |
Feb.
25 |
1894: Historian William
Leo Hansberry was born in Gloster, Mississippi.
1919: Baptist theologian Fred D. Howard was born in Fulton, Mississippi.
1926: The novel Soldiers Pay, by William
Faulkner (his first), was published by Boni & Liveright. |
Feb.
26 |
1849: Writer Katherine
Sherwood Bonner was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
1920: Historian John Hebron Moore was born in Greenville, Mississippi.
1954: English professor and fiction writer Danny Duncan Collum was born in Greenwood, Mississippi.
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Feb.
27 |
1932: William Faulkner published Lizard's in Jamshyds Courtyard in the Saturday
Evening Post.
1939: Suffragist and state legislator Belle Kearney died of cancer
in Jackson, Mississippi.
1941: Horror and fantasy writer Mary J. Turner (Shannon
Riley) was born near Ripley, Mississippi. |
Feb.
28 |
1954: Bobby Delaughter, author of Never Too Late: A Prosecutors
Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. |
Feb.
29 |
1988: Theologian Paul Ramsey died of a heart attack in Princeton,
New Jersey. |
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