A Mississippi Writer Timeline
A Compendium of Births,
Deaths, Publications, Awards, and Other Events in Mississippi’s Literary
History
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1930
Publications:
July 6: Baptist minister and theologian Clayton
Sullivan was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1931
Publications:
Winthrop Jordan born.
April 19: Etheridge
Knight born in Corinth, Mississippi.
November 11: Winthrop
Jordan born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
March
25: Ida B. Wells-Barnett died
of uremic poisoning in Chicago, Illinois.
1932
Publications:
November 19:
Ben E. Bailey born in Durant, Mississippi.
1933
.
Publications:
March 8: James A. Autry
born in Memphis, Tennessee.
March 17: Myrlie Evers
born Myrlie Van Dyke in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
June 25: James Meredith
born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Premiere of the film Today We Live , screenplay by William
Faulkner (and based on his short story Turn About).
Premiere of the film The Story of Temple Drake , based on the novel Sanctuary
by William Faulkner .
1934
Publications:
Doctor Martino and Other Stories , short stories by William Faulkner (Smith and Haas).
So Red the Rose , a novel by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
November 29:
Willie Morris born in Jackson, Mississippi; within half a year, the family moves to Yazoo City, Mississippi.
1935
Publications:
Pylon , a novel by William
Faulkner (Smith and Haas).
Death Follows a Formula, by "Newton Gale" (Maurice Guiness
and Muna Lee )
(Scribner's)
The Sentry Box Murder, by "Newton Gale" (Maurice Guiness and
Muna Lee )
(Scribner's)
Feliciana , stories by Stark
Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
Heaven Trees , a novel by Stark
Young (C. Scribner's Sons)
Anne Carsley born.
February 20:
Ellen Gilchrist born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
June 17: William Mills
born in Hattiesburg.
October 12: William
Raspberry born in Okolona, Mississippi.
Tennessee Williams 's play Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay produced in Memphis.
1936
Publications:
Absalom, Absalom! , a novel by William
Faulkner (Random House).
Murder at 28:10, by Newton Gale (Maurice Guiness and
Muna Lee ) (Scribners)
January 10: Stephen
E. Ambrose born in Decatur, Illinois.
February 7: John Stone
born in Jackson, Mississippi.
March 15: James Whitehead
born in St. Louis, Missouri.
September 24: Jim Henson
born in Greenville, Mississippi.
Premiere of the film The Road to Glory , screenplay by William
Faulkner and Joel Sayre.
1937
Publications:
Art in Review: Reprints of Material Dealing with Art Exhibitions Directed
by Walt Dehner and Acquisitions in the University of Puerto Rico, 1929-1938,
by Muna
Lee (University of Puerto Rico).
Southern Treasury of Life and Literature Selected by Stark Young ,
edited by Stark Young
(C. Scribner's Sons)
Death in the Glass, by "Newton Gale" (Maurice Guiness
and Muna Lee )
(Scribner's)
Gloria Norris born in Holcomb,
Mississippi.
July 16: Jay Higginbotham
was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Tennessee Williams 's plays Candles to the Sun and The Fugitive Kind are produced in St. Louis.
Premiere of the film Slave Ship , screenplay by William Faulkner , Sam Hellman, Lamar Trotti, and Gladys Lehman.
1938
Publications:
The Unvanquished , a novel by William
Faulkner (Random House).
Sinister Crag, by "Newton Gale" (Maurice Guiness and Muna
Lee ) (Scribner's)
Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas , by Richard
Wright ; expanded edition published that same year as Uncle Tom's
Children: Five Novellas (Harper).
Bright and Morning Star , a story by Richard
Wright (International Publishers).
November 5: Robert W. Hamblin
born in Jericho (Union County), Mississippi.
December 17: L. C. Dorsey
was born in Tribbett, Mississippi.
1939
Publications:
January 1: James Seay
born in Panola County, Mississippi.
July 5: Historian John
F. Marszalek was born in Buffalo, New York.
August 2: Charles Wilson
born in Kennett, Missouri.
August 23: Lewis Nordan
born in Jackson, Mississippi.
Premiere of the film Gunga Din , screenplay by Freg Guiol with story by
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, and William
Faulkner .
William Faulkner receives
an O. Henry Award and is elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.