Word: mississippians
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...first book, Geronimo Rex, won the Faulkner Prize and immediately set Hannah up as a hot Southern Writer. This was followed by Nightwatchmen and then by the prizewinning collection of short stories, Airships. During this time, Hannah published a record number of stories in Esquire, where the native Mississippian confused the hell out of a lot of people with stories like "Dragged Fighting From His Tomb," the story of a homosexual Confederate Soldier who butchers his way into Pennsylvania, only to turn traitor to Jeb Stuart. Or "Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet," a story about Vietnam, pro golf...
Like his songs, Steve Forbert has plenty of surprises beneath the surface. Sure, the diffident 25-year-old Mississippian has his modest ways: "I'll have a go at talking," he says, wrapping up a thuddingly difficult New York interview on the eve of his first Japan tour and third album, "but what I do is write songs and sing them." Nonetheless, inside that denim-jacketed heart, behind those covertly smiling eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music...
Wilkie, 39, is an affable Mississippian with an accent that sounds like marbles rolling around in a pail of Delta mud. A drooping mustache and gray-streaked hair that tumbles over his collar contribute to an aspect somewhere between a Confederate cavalry officer and Catfish Hunter. He began his career with the Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register (circ. 7,325), got his first taste of national politics-and a highly flattering portrayal in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Grouse's book about the 1972 campaign-at the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal (circ. 133,000) and hired...
...story began a year ago with an unexpected exit at the Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest soft drink maker (1979 sales: nearly $5 billion). Though he was five years away from retirement age, the company's popular president J. Lucian Smith abruptly quit. A genial Mississippian who died in July at 61 from a heart attack, Smith had reportedly told friends that his job "just wasn't fun any more." Some insiders said that he was forced out as a result of a personality conflict with the firm's aloof chairman and chief executive...
Will's despair can be traced in part to a trick of memory. He realizes suddenly that the hunting accident he was involved in as a young boy was no such thing. His father, a thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and himself. A later attempt at suicide succeeded, spurring Will to set out on a path as unlike his father's as possible: "God, just to get away from all that and live an ordinary mild mercantile money-making life, do mild sailing, mild poodle-walking, mild music-loving among...