Greenville's Writers

The county's shelf of writers runs wider than its famous names. William Attaway, born in Greenville in 1911, set his best-known novel, Blood on the Forge, in the Black migration out of the South. Leon Koury, son of Syrian immigrants who ran a Greenville grocery, became a sculptor and painter and mentored the sculptor William Beckwith. Clifton Taulbert, from Glen Allan, wrote about small-town Black life and the porch people who looked after everyone's children. Angela Jackson, Brooks Haxton, Beverly Lowry and Julia Reed also grew up in Greenville.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 0.3 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 5.2 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 8.1 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 12 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Stein Mart — steps away
• Where Main Street Meets the River — steps away
• Harriet Blanton Theobald Park — 0.5 mi
• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 1.4 mi