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| WILLIAM CUTHBERT FALKNER - he later | | | | MARY ANN MOBLEY was Miss America in 1959, |
| changed the spelling to ‘Faulkner' | | | | the first from Mississippi to win this title. She |
| (September 25, 1897) was a Nobel Prize | | | | was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on February 17, |
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| greatly influenced his writings – most of his | | | | Jonesboro, Arkansas. The family moved |
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| Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, for "his | | | | earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting |
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| modern American novel." He won two Pulitzer | | | | Juris Doctor degree from the University of |
| Prizes, one for A Fable (1955), and The Reivers | | | | Mississippi School of law in 1981. He was elected |
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| National Book Awards. And in 1987 the U.S. | | | | 1983 and served till 1990. He has written many |
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| 1962 at the age of 64. | | | | and his family divide their time living near Oxford, |
| MEDGAR WILEY EVERS (July 2, 1925) He was | | | | Mississippi and near Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| born in Decatur, Mississippi. He was an American | | | | BRETT LORENZO FAVRE is a football |
| civil rights activist. He attended what is now | | | | quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the |
| Alcorn State University. Evers majored in | | | | NFL. He was born in Gulport, Mississippi on |
| business administration, was on the debate team, | | | | October 10, 1969, and raised in Kiln. His ancestry |
| played football and ran track. He also sang in the | | | | is French/Choctaw. He was drafted by the |
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