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.
The Mississippi Cookbook
A collection of over one thousand of Mississippi’s most popular recipes
Sullivan's Hollow
Anecdotes and lore about a notorious zone in the Mississippi Piney Woods
Wild Bill Sullivan
King of the Hollow
The rollicking history of a dreaded real-life figure in the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods
Mississippi Writers Talking
Interviews with Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Elizabeth Spencer, Barry Hannah, and Beth Henley
Mississippi Writers Talking II
Interviews with Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Whitehead, and Turner Cassity
Mississippi Writers
Reflections of Childhood and Youth: Volume I: Fiction
Fiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
A Faulkner Chronology
A richly detailed outline of William Faulkner’s life and career written by an eminent French scholar
Conversations with Walker Percy
A Black Physician's Story
Bringing Hope in Mississippi
The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights
