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William Meade Prince (July 9, 1893 – November 10, 1951) was an American artist and popular magazine illustrator. Prince provided illustrations for over 90 stories in publications like Collier's Weekly, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and Country Gentleman. The title of his boyhood memoir, The Southern Part of Heaven, is both the official motto for the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a commonly used nickname.

Early Life
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Explain the subject's early life historically using a journalistic style.

Career and Personal Life
I guess it's kosher to combine them?? We'll figure it out. You need to talk about:
 * illustration career
 * marriage
 * Head of UNC-CH Art Department during WWII
 * Prince provided illustrations for the newspaper comics Aladdin Junior and Secrets of Magic in 1942 and 1943. In 1944, he also illustrated a comic book version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
 * Caroline Prince ~mysteries~
 * The Southern Part of Heaven

Death and afterward
On November 10, 1951, Prince called his family physician at 11 a.m. and asked him to come attend to an emergency. The doctor found a note pinned to the door stating that Prince had killed himself and to attend to his wife. Prince died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His family and friends could not explain why he would commit suicide.

Since his death, Prince has largely fallen into obscurity. Though his style is similar to Norman Rockwell's, it's speculated that Prince does not currently have the same level of notoriety because his primary body of work was magazine illustrations with few paintings intended for individual display, and because of the racial stereotypes perpetuated in much of his more popular work

Prince's entire artistic estate was donated to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by his widow in 1962, and is currently housed in the Ackland Art Museum.

To Keep In One Place While You Write

 * Athas, Daphne. Chapel Hill in Plain Sight: Notes From the Other Side of the Tracks. 1st. Hillsborough, NC: Eno Publishers, 2010. Print.
 * "Collection Title: William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers (#3660) 1890s-1962." The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 25 Nov 2013. Web. 13 Jan 2014. .
 * Sugrue, Thomas (1950, Feb 26). A tarheel scrapbook. New York Times (1923-Current File). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/111507342?accountid=14244
 * Denny, Diana. "Classic Covers: The Delightful Art of William Meade Prince." Art & Artists. The Saturday Evening Post, n. d. Web. 13 Jan. 2014. .
 * Powell, William Stevens. "Prince, William Meade." Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. 5. Chapel Hill, NC: 1994.
 * Flora, Joseph M., Lucinda Iardwick MacKethan, and Todd W. Taylor. "North Carolina, University of." The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Baton Rouge, LA: 2002.
 * Riggs, Timothy, and Patricia Samford, exhibit curators. "'The Southern Part of Heaven': Drawing on Memories." Ackland Art Museum. Chapel Hill, NC. 8 May -- 15 July 1994.
 * Prince, William Meade. The Southern Part of Heaven. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950. Print.

Used

 * Contento, William G., ed. "Artist Index." The FictionMagsIndex. N.p., 1 Nov 2013. Web. 13 Jan 2014. 
 * Mills, Jerry Leath. "Southern Part of Heaven." NCpedia. State Library of North Carolina, n.d. Web. 13 Jan 2014. 
 * "About the Collection." Ackland Art Musem. Ackland Art Musem, n.d. Web. 13 Jan 2014. .
 * Weinstein, Philip M.. "Scripting Lucas Beauchamp's Three Lives." Ed. Evans Harrington, Ann J. Abadie. Faulkner and the Short Story: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1990. . 1st ed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. 229-251. Print.
 * "Comic Creator: William Meade Prince." Lambiek Comiclopedia. Lambiek, 19 Mar 2013. Web. 13 Jan 2014. .
 * W.M. Prince, illustrator, kills himself. (1951, Nov 11). The Washington Post (1923-1954). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/152351344?accountid=14244
 * William Prince, artist and author, kills self. (1951, Nov 11). Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/178257036?accountid=14244
 * William Meade Prince recovering. (1929, Nov 10). New York Times (1923-Current File). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/104854952?accountid=14244