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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.
Learn about the life and work of William A. Percy, a poet, historian, and gay activist, and his foundation that supports research and education on sexuality and culture. Meet the directors and staff of the foundation, and explore their publications and initiatives.
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 […]
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.
William Alexander Percy was born on May 18, 1885, to LeRoy and Camille Percy. LeRoy Percy was a prosperous planter-lawyer and U.S. Senator, and Percy enjoyed a youth of privilege growing up in Greenville, Mississippi . Percy spent his early life under the gentle wing of his grandmother, Nannie Armstrong (Wyatt-Brown 194).
12. März 2012 · This biography presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, this telling creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist ...
William Alexander Percy’s Mississippi Delta in 1910: a world of sprawling cotton plantations worked by sharecroppers. A disproportionately large African American population. A small but powerful white population. A political system run by white people and by Democrats yet still fiercely contentious.
