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3 unusual facts about Wirt Williams


Goodman, Mississippi

Wirt Williams, novelist, journalist and professor of English who was three times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Wirt Williams

Born on August 21, 1921 on the campus of the Goodman, Mississippi-based agricultural school headed by his father (which would later become Holmes Community College), Williams was raised in Cleveland, Mississippi.

Heavily influenced by Ernest Hemingway as a writer, Williams published The Tragic Art of Ernest Hemingway in 1982.



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