6 Famous People Who Were Either Born And/or Spent A Significant Part Of Their Lives In Mississippi
6 FAMOUS PEOPLE
Who were born or spent a significant part of their lives in
MISSISSIPPI
WILLIAM CUTHBERT FALKNER - he later changed the spelling to ‘Faulkner’ (September 25, 1897) was a Nobel Prize winning author. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He has written novels, novellas, and short stories, and was also a poet and screenwriter. He was born and raised in Mississippi, The State of Mississippi greatly influenced his writings – most of his works are set in the state. Some of his most famous novels are The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, for “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for A Fable (1955), and The Reivers (1963) Falkner’s Collected Stories won him two National Book Awards. And in 1987 the U.S. Postal Service issued at 22 cent stamp in his honor. He died in Byhalia, Mississippi on July 6, 1962 at the age of 64.
MEDGAR WILEY EVERS (July 2, 1925) He was born in Decatur, Mississippi. He was an American civil rights activist. He attended what is now Alcorn State University. Evers majored in business administration, was on the debate team, played football and ran track. He also sang in the choir was was president of his junior class. He was appointed NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi in 1954.
He was involved in a boycott against white merchants and was instrumental in the eventual desegregatin of the University of Mississippi. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated in his own driveway. He was 37.
JAMES H. MEREDITH a prominent civil rights figure was born on June 25, 1933, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Right after high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served from 1951-1960. He attended Jackson State College for two years and then applied to the (then segregated) University of Mississippi. He is best known for becoming the school’s first black student in 1962.
MARY ANN MOBLEY was Miss America in 1959, the first from Mississippi to win this title. She was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on February 17, 1939. She also appeared in movies and on television shows as Fantasy Island, Mission Impossible, and The Love Boat
JOHN RAY GRISHAM is a writer of legal thriller novels. He was born on February 8, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The family moved frequently because of his father’s work, finally settling down in Southaven, Mississippi. He graduated from high school in Southaven and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting at Mississippi State University. He also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Mississippi School of law in 1981. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983 and served till 1990. He has written many legal fiction and non-legal fiction books. There are 13 films listed that are based on his books. He and his family divide their time living near Oxford, Mississippi and near Charlottesville, Virginia.
BRETT LORENZO FAVRE is a football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. He was born in Gulport, Mississippi on October 10, 1969, and raised in Kiln. His ancestry is French/Choctaw. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 1991, he then played 16 seasons for the Green Bay Packers (1992-2007), he came out of retirement to play with the New York Jets (2008) and he has been with the Vikings from 2009 till the present.
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