George Sessions Perry  |
| Address | County | utm_east |
| 201 Ackerman |
Milam |
691533 |
| utm_zone | utm_north |
| Rockdale, TX 76567 | 14 | 3393399 |
| Latitude | Longitude | ||
| N 30.65644° | W97.00067° |
| Location | Repair Condition |
| 201 Ackerman in courtyard of Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library |
| Marker Text |
| The son of Andrew and Laura Perry, George Sessions Perry was born May 5, |
| 1910, in Rockdale. In 1933, he married Claire Hodges of Beaumont. Four years |
| later, he published the first in a long line of fiction and non-fiction stories and |
| novels, many of which were based on people and events from his growing-up |
| years in Rockdale. As a World War II correspondent, he brought first-hand |
| accounts of the war to readers of The New Yorker" and "The Saturday Evening |
| Post." Perry won several major awards including the 1941 National Book Award |
| before his death in 1956-57. |
