Major Works
- Behind the Ridge (1987)
- The Seeking Spirit (1974)
- Cry Life (1968)
- Moral intention in the work of William Faulkner: a call for postive action, by Winifred Hamrick Farrar (thesis)
Biography
Winifred Hamrick Farrar was the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 1978 to 2010. She was born in Collinsville, Mississippi, in 1923. She attended the University of Mississippi where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 1945. She married Robert H. Farrar in 1946. She earned her master’s degree at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1962. She taught English in the Meridian Public School system for twenty four years, where she also served as publications advisor and chairman of the English Department. She died in 2010 in Meridian, Mississippi.