About Clark Hicks
Clark Hicks is a civil trial attorney who for more than 30 years has argued cases to well over one hundred juries. In his spare time, he wrote a collection of stories for local newspapers including The Hattiesburg American and The Pine Belt News. These stories were compiled into his new book, Mississippi Musings. He and his wife, Kathia, along with their two dogs, reside in Hattiesburg.
About Mississippi Musings
In 1973, McComb, Mississippi, emerged from a troubled era of the civil rights movement as a small town ready to move past Jim Crow laws and segregation. Young families began to settle in the southwest Mississippi community, including one such family from Oklahoma, Larry and Pat Hicks and their two young sons, Clark and Matt. Life in the 1970s and 80s in a quaint Southern hamlet became a breeding ground for stories of wit and charm.
In the early 1990s, oldest son Clark married his high school sweetheart, and the newlyweds moved eighty miles east to Hattiesburg, a thriving mid-size city where a new generation of Hicks boys were born. The expanded family in the “Hub City” of southeast Mississippi nestled into the fabric of a rapidly changing Southern culture, where tradition and technology created a fertile environment for storytelling reminiscent of an age long ago.
Part memoir, part history, this book consists of short story vignettes sure to entertain all readers, particularly those who have connections to the Magnolia State.
What our readers say…
★★★★★
Clark’s chronicles remind me why I am proud to be a Southerner and love Mississippi. My home is much more than where I live. It is where we all support each other and where we strive to do good for one another. Readers will laugh and learn through the journey of Mississippi Musings.
Jenny Ford