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A Short Biography of Hodding Carter

Author Name:

Hodding Carter

Born As:

William Hodding Carter II.

Other Names:

Born:

03 Feb 1907

Died:

04 Apr 1972




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Journalist, Author and Democrat                          
Selected Works:

The Winds of Fear - 1945
Southern Legacy - 1950
John Law Wasn't So Wrong: The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty - Baton Rouge, La.: Esso Standard Oil Company, 1952.
Where Main Street Meets the River - New York: Rinehart & Co., 1953
Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor - 1954
So Great a Good - 1955
Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom - 1958
The Angry Scar: The Story of Reconstruction - Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1959
First Person Rural - Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963
The Ballad of Catfoot Grimes and Other Verses - Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964
So the Heffners Left McComb - Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965
The Commandos of World War II - 1966
Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace Mercer University Memorial Lectures, No. 12 - Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1969                          
Wife Betty Werlein - three sons, William Hodding III, Philip Dutartre, Thomas Hennen Carter.

Thomas Hennen Carter - 1945–1964, killed himself playing a game of Russian roulette.                          
                          
For additional materials by and about Hodding Carter, Jr., the researcher is referred to Mitchell Library at Mississippi State University in Starkville, where Carter's personal papers are housed.