First Person Rural

by Hodding Carter, Hodding Carter

Hodding Carter has amusing and nostalgic things to tell about his boyhood in Louisiana, summer interludes in Maine, and adventures in such diverse places as South Africa and the Phillipines.
Mr. Carter also has plenty to say about his job as editor and publisher of a newpaper in Greenville, Mississippi, a state which, at the time, had become the storm center of racial conflict.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

William Hodding Carter II (February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972), was a Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author. Among other distinctions in his career, Carter was a Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner. He died in Greenville, Mississippi, of a heart attack at the age of sixty-five.