Mar 19, 2024
Curtis Wilkie, originally from Mississippi, is a retired Journalism professor at The University of Mississippi, a historian of the American South, and an author. After graduating from The University of Mississippi himself in 1963, he worked as a reporter and editor for the Clarksdale Press Register, received a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association to work as an aide to Sen. Walter Mondale in Washington, DC, and was a reporter at The News Journal and The Boston Globe. The Fellowship of Southern Writers presented him with the Special Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Writing in 2005, and a scholarship was endowed for Ole Miss Journalism students in Wilkie's name in 2013. Curtis makes his home in Mississippi.