Greenville Writers Exhibit
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.
Featured Writers
Charles G. Bell
David C. Berry
Betty Werlein Carter
Hodding Carter
Hodding Carter, III
Philip D. Carter
David L. Cohn
Ellen Douglas
Shelby Foote
Broooks Haxton
Angela Jackson
Bern Keating
Kate Keating
Beverly Lowry
Walker Percy
William Alexander Percy
Jessie Rosenburg Schell
Caroline Stern
Ben Wasson
Greenville would be interesting to study. Greenville, Mississippi has produced more published writers, for example, than Memphis, Tennessee, which is many times its size.
From the time I was in elementary school, I always knew it was not only respectable to be a writer, but honorable, desirable. The literary tradition was strong. Who our next writer would be was always pondered. Teachers were on the lookout. The effect of this is invaluable.
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.
Everybody from Greenville wanted to be a writer.
Greenville not only reads books, but with the capacity for the excessive that seems to flow from its rich earth, is feverishly writing them. 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.
…a community tolerant of individuality—almost like a European community.