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.
Conversations with Chester Himes
Collected interviews with the celebrated African American novelist
Conversations with Ishmael Reed
For Us, the Living
A widow’s love story of her life with Medgar Evers, the NAACP civil rights leader murdered by a midnight assassin
Pictured in My Mind
Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen
A stunning book featuring full-color reproductions of art by American self-taught artists
The Art of the Comic Book
An Aesthetic History
A history of the comic book, in which a noted cartoonist demonstrates the aesthetics and power of the medium
We Saw Lincoln Shot
One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts
Collected for the first time, actual eyewitness reports of the Lincoln assassination
The Lasting of the Mohicans
History of an American Myth
How media versions of Cooper’s classic frontier novel have perpetuated the myth of “America”
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Seven fascinating tales in which southerners surrender to the mesmerizing spell of Italy
Ash of Stars
On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany
A critical appreciation of the acclaimed science fiction writer and his works
Dangerous Freedom
Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels
A study of the fragmented world in the Nobel Prize author’s first six novels
More Conversations with Eudora Welty
The second collection of interviews with the acclaimed Mississippi writer
One Time, One Place
Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album
An acclaimed southern author’s soul-stirring photographic images of her homeland during the 1930s. Silver Anniversary Edition
Faulkner and the Artist
The meaning of art, artistry, and the figure of the artist in William Faulkner’s life and fiction. Original essays from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1993
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
C. L. R. James on the Negro Question
The first collection of writings on African-American topics by this internationally influential pan-African thinker
Lost Mansions of Mississippi
A photographic and historical review of fifty-seven of Mississippi’s most notable antebellum mansions, all long-vanished
Carolina Piedmont Country
A comprehensive view of the fascinating folklife in the Appalachian foothills of North and South Carolina
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana
Reading Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
A handbook for interpreting Faulkner’s great novel
The Other Carl Sandburg
A portrait of the radical Sandburg before his days of glory in the pantheon of popular writers
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Woke Me Up This Morning
Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life
Lords of Misrule
Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
The often-bloody history of Mardi Gras and the uproar over the government’s enforcement of diversity in Carnival krewes
Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit
The Culture of Festivals in the American South
Remaking Dixie
The Impact of World War II on the American South
Roosevelt's Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
In blues lyrics of the thirties and forties a reflection of FDR’s influence on Black America
Unflinching Gaze
Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned
A critical examination of the Faulkner-Morrison literary connection
Civil Rights Chronicle
Letters from the South
An outsider’s correspondence that documents the fight for civil rights in the Deep South
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
Me
A Book of Remembrance
A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance
Wiregrass Country
A look at a fascinating Deep South region and its distinctive way of life
Swapping Stories
Folktales from Louisiana
Transcribed oral tales that display the lively art of storytelling in the Bayou State
A Place Called Mississippi
Collected Narratives
An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia State
