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Charlaine Harris, author the Sookie Stackhouse novels, attended Rhodes College.
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John Grisham's first novel was not The Firm, as many believe. Grisham began writing a Time To Kill in 1984 and was his first novel.
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W.C. Handy is most known for being the "Father of the Blues." He was also an accomplished author, publishing five books during his career.
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Bestselling author Lisa Patton attended Hutchison School in Memphis.
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Virgina Boyle, Poet Laureate to the Confederacy, is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
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Tennessee Williams spent some of his childhood in Clarksdale, Mississippi after his grandfather was assigned as a minister in a parish there.
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Memphis author Shelby Foote did all of his writing by hand, as he disliked the typewriter.
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Contrary to how the movie portrayed it, the building Hannibal Lecter escapes from is Pittsburgh's Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial, not a Memphis courthouse.
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A bomb shelter is built beneath Booksellers at Laurelwood that is now being used as office space for the staff.
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The Memphis Public Library was founded in 1893.
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Famous adventure journalist, novelist, and Memphis resident Richard Halliburton was assumed lost at sea in March of 1939. His empty grave is at Forest Hill cemetery.
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Commercial Appeal writer Jody Callahan appeared on Jeopardy in 2006.
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William Faulkner died at the Wright Sanatorium in 1962 in Byhalia, MS.
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The Commercial Appeal was first published in 1841.
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The Memphis Literacy Council was co-founded by a Holocaust survivor, Nina Katz.
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