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William Alexander (author)
American writer and academic (born 1976)
This article is about the Vermont professor. For the poet, see Will Alexander (poet).
William Joseph Alexander (born October 9, 1976)[1] is an American writer and academic.
He is an adjunct professor in liberal arts at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, located in Montpelier, Vermont.[2]
He won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature recognizing his debut novel, Goblin Secrets, which was published by Margaret K. McElderry Books in 2012.[3][4] It features an orphaned boy who runs away to search for his lost brother in the magical city of Zombay.[4]
Education
[edit]Alexander studied theater and folklore at Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio; and English at the University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont.[5]
Career
[edit]His first published speculative fiction was a seven-page short story, "The Birthday Rooms" (Zahir, Summer 2005), which earned a 2006 Calvino Prize nomination.[6]
Alexander acknowledges that his writing style is influenced by well-known fantasy and mystery authors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Susan Cooper.[7]Goblin Secrets has re
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William Alexander Percy
Major Works
Non-fiction
- Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son (1941)
Poetry
- Of Silence and Stars (1953)
- The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy (1943)
- Selected Poems (1930)
- Enzio’s Kingdom, and Other Poems (1924)
- In April Once, and Other Poems(1920)
- Sappho in Levkas, and Other Poems (1915)
William Alexander Percy: A Biography
by Britton Boyd (SHS)
The Mississippi Delta, with its rich culture and history, has provided the South with many talented writers. Watts and others have called Greenville, Mississippi, (where William Alexander Percy lived), the “Athens of the Delta” because of its more than seventy published authors. William Alexander Percy deeply cherished the heritage he had inherited growing up as a planter’s son.
William Alexander Percy was born on May 18, 1885, to LeRoy and Camille Percy. LeRoy Percy was a prosperous planter-lawyer and U.S. Senator, and Percy enjoyed a youth of privilege growing up in Greenville, Mississippi. Percy spent his early life under the gentle wing of his grandmother, Nannie Armstrong (Wyatt-Brown 194). Percy’s early education was received at the Sisters of Mary convent. Percy developed an intense devotion to C