Hubert Horton McAlexander

Hubert Horton McAlexander (born October 27, 1939) is a scholar of Southern literature and culture and a Josiah Meigs Professor Emeritus in the University of Georgia’s department of English.

[2] In 1981 McAlexander published the first in-depth biography of Sherwood Bonner, a nineteenth-century author from Mississippi who defied social pressures and a privileged upbringing to leave her family and embark on a literary career.

[3] Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, much of his research focused on Peter Taylor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer from Tennessee.

This work culminated in his 2001 biography Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life, which Publishers Weekly described as a meticulous account.

His 2017 edited collection From the Chickasaw Cession to Yoknapatawpha: Historical Essays on North Mississippi examines the Native American, African-American, and European-American communities that shaped the region around Oxford, Mississippi, which William Faulkner fictionalized as “Yoknapatawpha County.”[6] He was honored as Outstanding Honors Professor in multiple years and won the Josiah Meigs Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Creative Research Medal.