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 Kurt Vonnegut
General Stephen D. Lee
A biographical portrait of an exceptional Confederate military figure
Morgana
Two Stories from The Golden Apples
Two of Welty’s finest stories, “Moon Lake” and “June Recital,” enhanced by twenty black-and-white illustrations by Mildred Nungester Wolfe
Redressing the Balance
American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s
The first comprehensive anthology of American women’s humorous writings, a collection that reclaims the tradition of female humor in America, from witty observations in the eighteenth century to humorous essays of contemporary women
Conversations with Maya Angelou
Conversations with Shelby Foote
Conversations with Robertson Davies
Conversations with James Baldwin
Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction
The contributors, authorities on Faulkner’s narrative, offer a wide variety of critical approaches to Faulkner’s fiction-writing process
