Grif stockley biography of william

Recently, I went to the memorial service for Grif Stockley, a well-known Arkansas lawyer, writer, and historian who died in January in Virginia, where he had been living to be close to his daughter.

Grif Stockley, mystery author from Lake Comorant, Mississippi

As we all told stories about the experiences we had had with Grif, it occurred to me that no biography, especially not something as brief as the entry on him in the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA), ever really does justice to anyone’s whole story. No biographer could completely capture who Grif was as a person; as cliché as it might be, we all really do contain multitudes.

I knew Grif largely as a fellow traveler in the world of Arkansas history, specifically the subset of that field that focuses upon racial injustice.

But others knew him as a brother, a father, a grandfather, a spouse, a friend of long duration, an opponent on the tennis court, and more. And even if we could gather the perspectives of everyone who knew Hypogrif in Bubbaville: A Memoir of Race, Class and Ego: Grif ... TACEC