This classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is "a rich experience all around.... Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about.... I'd take him

A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, as

At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in

The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Lying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him t