The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Oil in the Deep South
A History of the Oil Business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, 1859â€"1945
A history of the petroleum industry in the Southeastern United States through the end of World War II
The Crawfish Book
An amusing, informative book that tells you all you’ll need to know about an amazing crustacean
The New Orleans Garden
Gardening in the Gulf South
A comprehensive guide to creating your own New Orleans garden
More Conversations with Walker Percy
Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast
A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts
How to identify your fascinating find and understand the culture that produced it
The Shoe Bird
Eudora Welty's only book written for children, the charming story of a shoe-store parrot named Arturo and his many feathered friends
Conversations with Richard Wright
Conversations with Paul Bowles
Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
The Christ-Haunted Landscape
Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction
Stories, interviews, and discussions showing the imprint of "old-time religion" on the artistic vision of twelve writers of the American South: Larry Brown, Reynolds Price, Allan Gurganus, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Harry Crews, Will Campbell, Doris Betts, Sheila Bosworth, Mary Ward Brown, Randall Kenan, and Sandra Hollin Flowers
Eudora Welty
A Bibliography of Her Work
In complete detail the major bibliography of the works of one of America’s most admired writers
South Florida Folklife
Rich folklife of America’s southernmost tip shaped by ethnic diversity and nomadic tourist populations
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Collected interviews with the Nobel Prize winner in which she describes herself as an African American writer and that show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African American experience
Super Heroes
A Modern Mythology
A study of one of popular culture’s superstars whose enchanting mystique pervades the modern world
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
Interviews from over the course of the author's career document his views on writing, poetry, drama, and the social role of the writer
Dance Marathons
Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
How the craze of exhausting marathon dancing during the 1920s and '30s mirrored America’s struggle to outlast social problems of the era
Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors
An essential how-to guide for researching ancestral roots in the Magnolia State
Cajun and Creole Folktales
The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana
The largest and most diverse collection of Louisiana folktales ever published
The Lonely Days Were Sundays
Reflections of a Jewish Southerner
This collection of essays by the astute historian Eli N. Evans is written from the unique perspective of a Jew raised in the South.