William Alexander Percy
2 books
About the Author
William Alexander Percy was a Mississippi lawyer, planter, and writer whose memoir Lanterns on the Levee offers a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century Southern life. Born into a prominent Delta family, he chronicled the rhythms of plantation culture, the challenges of the Great Flood of 1927, and his own evolving sense of duty and place. Percy’s reflective prose blends personal anecdote with social observation, revealing both affection for and critique of the world that shaped him.
Writing style
reflective
elegiac
lyrical
