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William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 – January 21, 1942) was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature.
- January 21, 1942 (aged 56)
- LeRoy Percy, Camille Percy
- May 14, 1885, Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
William Alexander Percy was born on 15 May 1885 in Greenville, Mississippi, and was named after his grandfather, a planter and lawyer who served as a colonel during the Civil War, earning the nickname the Gray Eagle of the Valley. Will Percy perceived himself as distanced from and overshadowed by his father, LeRoy, a powerful […]
Há 5 dias · William Alexander Percy, born May 14, 1885, was a writer from Greenville, Mississippi. He is most popularly known for his autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf, 1941). His poetry was also published posthumously in Collected Poems (Knopf, 1943). He died on January 21, 1942.
Há 4 dias · Will Percy. Named after his grandfather, the Civil War hero William Alexander "Gray Eagle" Percy, Will Percy also served in the Army with honor and valor during World War I. But in his...
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Who we are. William Alexander Percy (1885-1942) was the son of US Senator LeRoy Percy, owner of the 20,000 acre Trail Lake plantation near Greenville, Mississippi. He matriculated at Sewanee at the age of 14, spent a year in Paris after graduation, and then earned a law degree from Harvard. He served with Herbert Hoover on the Commission for ...
William Alexander Percy’s memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son, was critically acclaimed and has become his most famous work. William Alexander Percy was a writer and poet, and he was extremely active in the political, cultural, and social life of Greenville, Mississippi.
12 de mar. de 2012 · William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker. Benjamin E. Wise. Published: 12 March 2012. Cite. Share. Abstract. This biography presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi.
