Curtis Wilkie | |
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.jpg) Pencil drawing of Curtis Wilkie by David Levine (1980) | |
| Born | September 20, 1940 Greenville, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Education | University of Mississippi |
| Occupation(s) | former reporter for the Boston Globe, retired professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi |
| Children | Carter, Leighton McCool, Stuart (deceased) |
Curtis Wilkie (born September 20, 1940) is a retired newspaper reporter, college professor and historian of the American South. He is the author of numerous books including When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer, and Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South. Historian Douglas Brinkley wrote that, "Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie."[1]
- ^ "Profile of Curtis Wilkie". Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. University of Mississippi.