Dear Hubert Creekmore: An Archival Search into the Life of a Queer Mississippi Writer

<p><em>Dear Hubert Creekmore: An Archival Search into the Life of a Queer Mississippi Writer</em> examines the life of writer, translator, poet, painter, and trained classical pianist Hiram Hubert Creekmore, Jr. through archival research of collections donated by the author at three public institutions. The thesis explores the private relationships Creekmore had with literary and artistic figures from 1940-1966 and the silence surrounding LGBTQ archives to produce a more extensive biographical work on the author. Creekmore’s relationships with a variety of writers, composers, artists, and publishers is examined in order to discover his circle of friends as well as attempt to discover what his life was like as a gay man from Mississippi in post-World War II America. The second component of this thesis, the short documentary film <em>Dear Hubert Creekmore</em> explores the author’s ties to his childhood home of Water Valley, Mississippi in his novels and poems.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.F.A. in Documentary Expression

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Southern Studies

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Knight, Mary Stanton

Contributors dc:contributor

• Andy Harper
• Jaime L. Harker
• Kathryn McKee

• Author
• Hiram Hubert Creekmore Junior
• Hubert Creekmore
• Mississippi
• Queer
• Water Valley
• Other International and Area Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1557

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2556