His early novels are set in rural Rankin County, Mississippi, including his hometown of Florence, in the early 1900s (Howard 200).
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Perhaps most autobiographical is A Chosen World (1966), whose narrator, Rex Polo, is born in Florence, Mississippi, in 1921, just as Corley was.
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Carl Vernon Corley was born in Florence, Mississippi, in 1921, growing up there to graduate from Florence High School.
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