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About William Alexander Percy
William Alexander Percy was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Roman Catholicism of his French mother.
Everything about William Alexander Percy →- Occupation
- poet, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 14, 1885
- Died
- January 21, 1942