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- Maidel Turner was born on 12 May 1888 in Sherman, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for State of the Union (1948), Mutiny Ahead (1935) and Here Comes the Groom (1951). She was married to Frederic Sumner. She died on 12 April 1953 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
- Often compared to Southern writers such as Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty -- with whom she studied -- Ellen Gilchrist has been declared "a national treasure" by the Washington Post for her various works. She has received numerous awards for her novels, poetry, and memoirs, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Fiction. Gilchrist is known for writing complex heroines who overcome or embrace their oppressive settings and her work often deals with marriage, family, and dreams.
She followed the success of her 1981 short story collection In The Land of Dreamy Dreams with Victory Over Japan, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 1984. After a year on NPR's Morning Edition, her commentaries were published in 1987 as Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist. - Merrell Williams was born on 26 January 1941 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He was married to Christina Daltro. He died on 18 November 2013 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
- Tessa Deane was born on 16 May 1908 in Westminster, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Derby Day (1937), Derby Day (1938) and In Town Tonight (1935). She was married to Michael Jesse Collins (musical director), William Herbert Mercer and Thomas Santarelli. She died on 30 March 2000 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
- Floyd Hudlow was born on 9 November 1943 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He died on 22 March 2021 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
- Frank Carideo was born on 4 August 1908 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931). He died on 17 March 1992 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
- Unita Blackwell was born on 18 March 1933 in Lula, Mississipi, USA. She was married to Willie Wright, Jeremiah Blackwell Sr. and N. She died on 13 May 2019 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.