Biography

Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance

Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning

Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé

American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz

American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons

At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Backseat Quarterback

Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story

Barthé: A Life in Sculpture

Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B. B. King

Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell

Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper

Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity

Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor

Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty

Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

Dancing with My Father

DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess

Earl Hooker, Blues Master

Elvis and Gladys

The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb

Escape from Archangel: An American Merchant Seaman at War

Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer

Faulkner: A Biography

Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell

Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson

Hank Williams, So Lonesome

Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist

Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment

James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists

Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler

Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill

Ladies of Soul

Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta

The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies

Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis

Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism

On William Faulkner

On William Hollingsworth, Jr.

The Other Carl Sandburg

Poe

Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle

Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame

The Rise of David Duke

Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story

Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story

Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America

The Several Lives of Chester Himes

Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery

Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Soldier's Son

Sonny Montgomery: The Veteran's Champion

Southern Belle

Stackhouse

The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tennessee Williams and the South

Thomas Jefferson on Wine

Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story

Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

Welty: A Life in Literature

Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany

Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life

The World of Richard Wright

Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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