This first comprehensive compilation of Mississippi literary biographies; includes all of the state's writers who wrote and published a work of at least 30 page

With contributions by Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O'Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Pi

Nonfiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South

The second edition of Mississippi: A History features a series of revisions and updates to its comprehensive coverage of Mississippi state history from the time