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William Alexander Percy Memorial Library<\/p>\n
341 Main Street<\/p>\n
Greenville, Mississippi 38701<\/p>\n
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The William Alexander Percy Memorial Library is the home of an exhibit honoring the rich literary heritage of Greenville. The Exhibit includes books and manuscripts from many Greenville Writers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Charles G. Bell<\/p>\n
David C. Berry<\/p>\n
Betty Werlein Carter<\/p>\n
Hodding Carter<\/p>\n
Hodding Carter, III<\/p>\n
Philip D. Carter<\/p>\n
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David L. Cohn\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n
Shelby Foote<\/p>\n
Broooks Haxton<\/p>\n
Angela Jackson<\/p>\n
Bern Keating\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kate Keating<\/p>\n
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Beverly Lowry<\/p>\n
Walker Percy<\/p>\n
William Alexander Percy<\/p>\n
Jessie Rosenburg Schell<\/p>\n
Caroline Stern<\/p>\n
Ben Wasson<\/p>\n
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G<\/span>reenville would be interesting to study.\u00a0 Greenville, Mississippi has produced more published writers, for example, than Memphis, Tennessee, which is many times its size.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_testimonial author=” Beverly Lowry” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n From the time I was in elementary school, I always knew it was not only respectable to be a writer, but honorable, desirable.\u00a0 The literary tradition was strong.\u00a0 Who our next writer would be was always pondered.\u00a0 Teachers were on the lookout.\u00a0 The effect of this is invaluable.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Charles East” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Those looking for answers to the question of why the South has produced so many writers frequently turn to the example of Greenville, Mississippi, which boasts (quite literally) a string of writers.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Charles Bell” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Everybody from Greenville wanted to be a writer.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_testimonial author=”David Cohn” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Greenville not only reads books, but with the capacity for the excessive that seems to flow from its rich earth, is feverishly writing them.\u00a0 It shelters so many practicing and aspiring writers that sober citizens wonder who will do the useful work of the community such as baking bread and repairing cars.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”1_3″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Bern Keating” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n …a community tolerant of individuality\u2014almost like a European community.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" William Alexander Percy Memorial Library 341 Main Street Greenville, Mississippi 38701 The William Alexander Percy Memorial Library is the home of an exhibit honoring the rich literary heritage of Greenville. The Exhibit includes books and manuscripts from many Greenville Writers.\u00a0Charles G. Bell David C. Berry Betty Werlein Carter Hodding Carter Hodding Carter, III Philip D. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washington.lib.ms.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}