A Mississippi Writer Timeline
A Compendium of Births,
Deaths, Publications, Awards, and Other Events in Mississippi’s Literary
History
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1920
Publications:
October 1:
David Herbert Donald born in Goodman, Mississippi.
1921
Publications:
Three One Act Plays: Madretto, At the Shrine, Addie , by Stark Young (Stewart Ridd Co.)
May 28: Joseph Edgar
Simmons born in Natchez.
July 12:
Josephine Ayres (Ellen Douglas) born in Natchez.
July 19:
Elizabeth Spencer born in Carrollton, Mississippi.
1922
Charles Evers
was born near Decatur, Mississippi.
September 18: Newspaper columnist George
Thatcher was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.
October 11: Thomas
Hal Phillips was born on a farm near Corinth, Mississippi.
October 12: Borden Deal
was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
1923
Publications:
Sea-Change , poems by Muna
Lee (Macmillan)
The Flower in Drama: A Book of Papers on the Theatre , by Stark
Young (C. Scribern's Sons)
besmilr brigham born (as Bess Miller Moore) in Pace, Mississippi.
July 18:
Jimmy Faulkner born in Oxford, Mississippi.
August 19:
Martha Lacy Hall born in Magnolia, Mississippi.
December 3:
Malcolm Franklin born in Shanghai, China.
1924
Publications:
July 18:
Will Davis Campbell born in Liberty, Mississippi.
December 11: Charles
East born in Shelby, Mississippi.
1925
Publications:
Glamour: Essays on the Art of the Theatre , by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
The Saint: A Play in Four Acts , by Stark Young (Boni and Liveright)
Sweet Times and the Blue Policeman , children's plays by Stark Young (H. Holt and Co.)
July 2:
Medgar Evers born near Decatur, Mississippi.
November 21: Robert
Canzoneri born in San Marcos, Texas.
December 5: John
Alfred Williams born in Jackson, Mississippi
1926
Publications:
Soldiers' Pay , the first novel by William
Faulkner (Boni and Liveright).
Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles , a collection of sketches
and caricatures by William Spratling with a foreword by William
Faulkner .
Four Years Beneath the Crescent, by Rafael de Nogales, translated
by Muna Lee
(Scribner's).
Encaustics , by Stark
Young (New Republic Inc.)
Theatre Practice , nonfiction by Stark
Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
July 1: Frank
Trippett was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
May 25: John Crews
born in Monroe, Michigan; at the age of six months his family moves to Vicksburg,
Mississippi.
September 28: Jerry Clower
born in Liberty, Mississippi.
1927
Publications:
October 8: Patrick
D. Smith was born in Mendenhall, Mississippi.
1928
Publications:
The Torches Flare , a novel by Stark
Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
September 26: Joan Williams
was born.
1929
Publications:
Sartoris , a novel by William Faulkner (Harcourt, Brace).
The Sound and the Fury , a novel by William Faulkner (Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith).
River House , a novel by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
The Sea Gull , by Anton Chekhov, translation by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
October 23: Jere Hoar
was born in Dyersburg, Tennessee.
January 12: Turner Cassity
was born in Jackson, Mississippi.