![]() ![]() A Southern man of letters, Percy befriended many fellow writers, Southern, Northern and European, including William Faulkner. He also published four volumes of poetry with the Yale University Press. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre.įrom 1925 to 1932, Percy edited the Yale Younger Poets series, the first of its kind in the country. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the U.S. After returning to Greenville, Percy joined his father's firm in the practice of law.ĭuring World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He spent a year in Paris before going to Harvard for a law degree. As an attorney and planter with 20,000 acres under cultivation for cotton, he was very influential at the Episcopal university, Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, a postbellum tradition in his family. His father was elected as US senator in 1910. He was born to Camille, a French Catholic, and LeRoy Percy, of the planter class in Mississippi, and grew up in Greenville on the big river. ![]()
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