1. Curtis Wilkie is the author of numerous books including When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer, and Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South.
11 Facts About Curtis Wilkie
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Curtis Wilkie's parents advocated for the racial integration of their church in 1971, at a time when many white Christians in Mississippi were leaving mainline Protestant denominations and public school systems due to avoid integration.
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Curtis Wilkie graduated from Corinth High School in 1958 and from the University of Mississippi in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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In 1969, Curtis Wilkie received a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association to work in Washington, DC as an aide to Sen.
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Curtis Wilkie was featured in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse's account of the journalists who covered the 1972 election battle between Richard Nixon and George McGovern.
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Curtis Wilkie joined The Boston Globe in 1975 and served as a national and foreign correspondent for the paper for the next 26 years.
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Curtis Wilkie was the Globe's White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982 and served for a time as its Washington bureau chief.
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In 1993, Curtis Wilkie established the Globe's Southern bureau in New Orleans, where he lived in the French Quarter.
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From 2008 to 2010, Wilkie spent two years researching court records and conducting some 200 personal interviews for his book, The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer, his portrayal of Richard F "Dickie" Scruggs, the famed trial lawyer and brother-in-law of former US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.
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Curtis Wilkie was portrayed by actor Colm Feore in the movie The Insider.
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Curtis Wilkie frequently appears on panel discussions related to Southern politics, journalism, and the Civil Rights struggle in Mississippi.