Choctaw Tales

By Tom Mould & Rae Nell Vaughn
Foreword by Chief Phillip Martin
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

From the earliest stories recorded among the Choctaw in the 1700s to the most recent stories being told today, Choctaw Tales: Stories from the Firekeepers amasses the most comprehensive collection of oral ...

Choctaw Traditions

By Tom Mould, Eddie Johnson, and Jay Wesley
Categories: Race And Ethnicity

There are thousands of books that record the oral traditions of Native peoples, documenting their myths, legends, folktales, and tribal histories. Yet, there are almost none that pay the same attention ...

William Faulkner in Holly Springs

By Sally Wolff
Categories: Literature

William Faulkner in Holly Springs describes places and people in this small Mississippi town and defines how these newly identified individuals and locales affected Faulkner’s writings. Author Sally Wolff u ...

Deep Roots, Broken Branches

By Victoria Bynum
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Best known for her award-winning book The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum turns now to her own history in this multigenerational American saga spanning from ...

A Republican's Lament

By Bill Crawford
Foreword by Lloyd Gray & C. D. Smith
Categories: Politics

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction

Bill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil Carmichael’s ...

All the Things We Didn't Say

By Marion Garrard Barnwell & Mary DuBose Trice Clark
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing

In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired ...

Larry Brown

By Jean W. Cash
Foreword by Shannon Ravenel
Categories: Mississippi
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Winner of the 2011 Eudora Welty Prize
Larry Brown (1951–2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them—his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Ric ...

The Egg Bowl

By William G. Barner
With Danny McKenzie & Jeff Roberson
Categories: Sports And Recreation

From the contentious delay of the first clash in 1901 to the latest battle in 2023, The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Third Edition updates the two previous editions to give the most accurate, ...

Ghostwriter

By Lawrence Wells
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing

Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true ...

Faulkner, Welty, Wright

Edited by Annette Trefzer, Jay Watson, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Bernard T. Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, ...