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 Thornton Wilder
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town
Friendship and Sympathy
Communities of Southern Women Writers
An anthology of reviews, essays, and appreciations that reveal the links uniting the careers of many noted southern women writers
Conversations with Robert Coles
Conversations with Graham Greene
An Alphabet
Mississippi artist Walter Anderson’s block print alphabet pictures from Apple to Zebra—suitable for hand coloring
Conversations with Philip Roth
The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman
Black Exodus
The Great Migration from the American South
An exploration of the impact of the massive migration of southern blacks to the North
Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World
Interviews with third-world and Chicano authors speaking about their place in the literary canon
Kentucky Bluegrass Country
A Haunt of Fears
The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign
An exploration of the British campaign against horror comics between 1949 and 1955 that led to the passage of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1955
The Capers Papers
Essays that offer a pleasurable jaunt through the irrepressibly funny world of a gifted raconteur
The Courting of Marcus Dupree
Winner of a Christopher Award in 1984 for “affirming the highest value of the human spirit,” the classic account of a young black athlete who became a metaphor for the complex culture of Mississippi
Acadian to Cajun
Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
A study of unusual documentary resources that disclose the processes of cultural evolution that transformed the Acadians of early Louisiana into the Cajuns of today
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Conversations
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
Faulkner and the Short Story
Papers presented in 1990 at the seventeenth annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi. A volume extolling the Nobel Laureate’s short story masterpieces with homage and critical appreciation
Conversations with Eudora Welty
In a series of interviews, Eudora Welty discusses her life in Mississippi, her literary career, and her novels and short stories