A Mississippi native, Percy served in World War I where he earned the Croix de Guerre for Military Service in 1918. He graduated from Harvard in 1908 and received a honorary Litt. D. from the University of the South in 1939.
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Biography of William Alexander Percy
American Poet (1885—1942)
