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Curtis Wilkie, a native Mississippian, graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1963. He worked for the Clarksdale Press Register in the Mississippi Delta through the rest of the 1960s, during the height of the civil rights movement. A national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe for twenty-six years, he has covered eight presidential campaigns and was the paper's Middle East bureau chief from 1984 to 1987. Wilkie has written for many national magazines, including Newsweek and The New Republic. He lives in the French Quarter of New OrleansWilkie, Curtis is the author of 'Dixie A Personal Odyssey Through Historic Events That Shaped the Modern South' with ISBN 9780684872858 and ISBN 0684872854.
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