![]() ![]() Percy was born into a prosperous SouthernĬlan that traced its roots back to one Charles Percy, who in 1775 or 1776 He was born to Camille Bourges (1862–1929), a French Catholic, and LeRoy Percy (1860–1929), of the planterĬlass in Mississippi, and grew up in Greenville on the big river. Wise traces a long history of same-sex intimacy in Greenville,īeginning not with William Alexander but with his uncle,īen Wasson, a friend of William Faulkner’sīorn in Greenville in 1900 and himself gay, knew William Alexander Percy and Wise explores theĬomplex and changing codes of gay identification in the latter nineteenthĬentury. In his biography of Percy, William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker, Benjamin E. InĪ largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Roman Catholicism The last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. ![]() On the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. Planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. William Alexander Percy (– January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, Greenville Cemetery Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, USA ![]()
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