E.E. Peebles
Character Key Number:
3044
Display Name:
E.E. Peebles
Sort Name:
Peebles, E.D.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The Memphis lawyer with an office on Beale Street who conducts Joanna Burden's business affairs in Light in August is named Peebles. He is also the trustee of one of the Negro colleges she aids, and one of the very few black professionals in the Yoknapatawpha fictions who is not a minister. He does not appear directly in the novel.