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My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called ‘The Southern Planter.’ He didn’t think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I’d seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer  (Southern Writers Quotes) Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story  (Southern Writers Quotes) I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.  (Southern Writers Quotes) I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at ‘Memphis’ magazine - focused on race relations.  (Southern Writers Quotes)