May
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1914: Historian May Spencer Ringold was born in Winona, Mississippi.
1957: The Town, a novel by William
Faulkner and volume two of the Snopes trilogy, was published
by Random House.
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May
2 |
1955: Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to William
Faulkner for A Fable and to Tennessee
Williams for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1981: Journalist John Osborne died of emphysema in Washington,
D.C.
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May
3 |
1925: William Faulkner
published The Rosary in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1935: Garden writer Neil G. Odenwald was born in Heathman, Mississippi.
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May
4 |
1699: Construction of Fort Maurepas was completed on the eastern shore
of Biloxi Bay, near present-day Ocean Springs, as part of the first French settlement
in what is now Mississippi under the command of Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur dIberville.
1943: Tennessee
Williams signed a seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. During
the following months, while awaiting a studio assignment, he wrote The Gentleman
Caller, which he later renamed The Glass Menagerie.
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May
5 |
1700: Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur dIberville, leader of the first French
colony in what is now Mississippi, established a peace treaty with the Natchez
Indians, who cede land on which to build Fort Rosalie near present-day
Natchez, though the actual fort would not be built until 1716.
2002: Cable network C-SPAN aired a live broadcast on William
Faulkner from Rowan Oak, his former home in Oxford, Mississippi, as
part of its American Writers II:
The Twentieth Century television series.
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May
6 |
1942: William Faulkner
published The Bear in the Saturday Evening Post.
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May
7 |
1919: Writer and English professor Louise Blackwell was born
in Benmore, Mississippi.
1932: William Faulkner
arrived in Culver City, California as an MGM contract writer.
1989: Economist Earl Hamilton died in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
1998: Myres Smith McDougal, professor of law and one of the originators
of the originators of the New Haven school of jurisprudence, died in North Branford,
Connecticut.
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May
8 |
1541: Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto arrived at the Mississippi River,
nearly five months after entering present-day Mississippi. The massive river
impeded his westward journey for nearly a month as his men built barges to cross
the river.
1926: Theatre scholar Barbara Izard was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.
1932: Chemist John Fredric Garst was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1944: Novelist and short story writer Jack
Butler was born in Alligator, Mississippi.
1952: Playwright Beth Henley
was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1993: Theologian C. E. Autrey died in Pensacola, Florida.
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May
9 |
1905: Writer and educator Miriam Weiss was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1987: Writer Willie Morris
spoke at the dedication of the Confederate cemetery in Raymond, Mississippi.
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May
10 |
1925: William Faulkner
published The Cobbler in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1990: Walker Percy
died of cancer in Covington, Louisiana.
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May
11 |
1942: Go Down, Moses, an episodic novel by William
Faulkner, was published under the mistaken title Go Down, Moses,
and Other Stories by Random House. Faulkners original title was restored
to subsequent editions.
1977: Tennessee
Williams play Vieux Carre opened at St. James Theatre,
New York. It closed after ruinous notices and only five performances.
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May
12 |
1909: Theologian and philosopher James Brown was born in Laurel,
Mississippi.
1953: Mystery and romance novelist Carolyn
Haines was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
2001: The motion picture Big Bad Love, based on the short story
collection by Larry Brown,
premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
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May
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May
14 |
1885: Writer William
Alexander Percy, who became legal guardian of his cousin Walker
Percy after the death of Walkers parents, was born in Greenville,
Mississippi.
1892: English professor Palmer Hudson was born in Attala County,
Mississippi.
1941: Poet and fiction writer Paul
Ruffin was born in Millport, Alabama.
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May
15 |
1904: Historian John C. Osborn was born in Learned, Mississippi.
1952: William Faulkner
addressed the Delta Council in Cleveland, Mississippi.
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May
16 |
1952: William Faulkner
left Mississippi for a one-month trip to France, England, and Norway.
1990: Filmmaker and puppeteer Jim
Henson, renowned as the creator of the popular Muppets characters, died
of pneumonia in New York City.
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May
17 |
1884: Historian J. F.
H. Claiborne, the father of Mississippi history died, less
than two months after a fire at his home in Natchez, Mississippi, destroyed
the manuscript of what would have been volume two of his history of Mississippi.
1899: Economist Earl Hamilton was born in Houlka, Mississippi.
1922: Journalist Bill Minor was born.
1925: William Faulkner
published Chance in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1937: A Piece of News by Eudora
Welty was accepted for publication by Southern Review. It appeared
later heavily revised in A Curtain of Green.
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May
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May
19 |
1909: Anne Clark, a former ambassadors wife and author
of several books, was born in Metcalfe, Mississippi.
1919: Science writer William C. Harrison was born in Corinth,
Mississippi.
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May
20 |
1919: Novelist and short story writer Berry
Morgan was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
1925: English professor William Edward Walker was born in Meridian,
Mississippi.
1936: Poet Glen R. Swetman was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.
1979: Eudora Weltys
Ida MToy was published by the University of Illinois Press in Urbana.
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May
21 |
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May
22 |
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May
23 |
1899: Railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman embarked on a scientific expedition
to Alaska, which became the subject of Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition
to Alaska, 1899, by Mississippi writer Kay Sloan and William H. Goetzmann.
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May
24 |
1925: William Faulkner
published Sunset in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1962: William Faulkner
accepted the Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and
Letters in New York.
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May
25 |
1904: According to a local legend, a witch broke out of
some chain links surrounding her grave and burned down Yazoo City, Mississippi,
a feat made famous in the book Good Ole Boy by Willie
Morris.
1926: Poet and playwright John
Crews was born in Monroe, Michigan.
1937: Novelist Jean Davison was born in Spanish Fort, Mississippi.
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May
26 |
1736: French forces under Bienville were defeated by the Chickasaw in
the Battle of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo.
1892: Poet Maxwell Bodenheim was born in Hermanville, Mississippi.
1925: Marketing professor Charles L. Broome was born in Prentiss,
Mississippi.
1952: Cecil Kuhne, author of several books on river rafting,
was born in Louisville, Mississippi.
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May
27 |
1941: Richard Wrights
signed appeal against American intervention in the European war appeared in
the New Masses.
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May
28 |
1700: After having established a French colony in what is now Mississippi,
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur DIberville returned to France.
1916: Novelist Walker
Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1921: Poet J. Edgar Simmons was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
1959: Filmmaker and Muppet creator Jim
Henson married Jane Anne Nebel, a puppeteer and business executive.
1966: Novelist and memoirist Reuben G. Davis died in Yazoo City,
Mississippi.
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May
29 |
1925: Richard Wright
graduated from Smith Robertson Junior High School, in Jackson, Mississippi,
as valedictorian.
1989: Choral suite from the opera Pamelia, libretto by Linda
Peavy and Ursula Smith, was performed at Carnegie Hall in New York.
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May
30 |
1961: William Faulkners
grandson, A. Burks Summers, was born.
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May
31 |
1925: William Faulkner
published The Kid Learns in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
1939: Writer and musician Al
Young was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
1941: William Faulkner
published The Tall Men in the Saturday Evening Post.
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