title: James Southall Wilson
text: # James Southall Wilson
  
  James Southall Wilson (1880–1963) was an author, University of Virginia professor, and founder of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He organized the 1931 Southern Writers Conference. His wife, Julia Tyler, was the granddaughter of President John Tyler and a founder of Kappa Delta sorority. Wilson wrote the College of William & Mary's spirit song, "Our Alma Mater."
  
  Wilson wrote a biography of ornithologist Alexander Wilson in 1906.
  
  