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This collection includes works by writers influenced by the creative ambiance of the Mississippi Delta. Delta State University is fortunate to house this priceless and unique assembly of works, which include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and O’Henry Award.
Prize Stories 1975 The O. Henry Awards, William Abrahams
The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927 by the American National Red Cross
New Short Novels edited by Mary Louise Aswell
Blood On The Forge by William Attaway
Hear America Singing by William Attaway
Let Me Breathe Thunder by William Attaway
Tough Kid by William Attaway
William Alexander Attaway was an African American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter. Attaway was born in Greenville, Mississippi, but at the age of six moved with his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, as part of the Great Migration.
His first short story, “Tale of the Blackamoor”, was published in 1936. In 1939, Attaway’s first novel, Let Me Breathe Thunder, was published. He then began working on his second and last novel, Blood on the Forge. After Blood on the Forge, Attaway began to write songs, screenplays, and books about music. His main works include Calypso Song Book and Hear America Singing. Attaway and Irving Burgie co-wrote the famous song “Day-O” (Banana Boat Song) . In the 1950s, Attaway became the first African American to write scripts for film and TV.
The Percys of Mississippi by Lewis Baker
The Measure: A Journal of Poetry by Witter Banner, W.A. Percy, Raymond Holden, and others
Rising Tide by John M. Barry
A History of the Inland River Port by Colonel Miltion P. Barschdorf
Five Chambered Heart by Charles G. Bell
The Half Gods by Charles G. Bell
Divorce Boxing, Poems by D.C. Berry
Jawbone by D. C. Berry
Saigon Cemetery by D.C. Berry
The Vietnam Ecclesiastes by D.C. Berry
David Chapman Berry was in Vicksburg, Mississippi, but he grew up in Greenville. He received a B.S. at Delta State College and then served as a medical service officer for three years in Vietnam, where he wrote his first volume of poetry, Saigon Cemetery (1972). After he returned home, he enrolled in graduate work at the University of Tennessee, where he received a Ph.D. in English in 1973. He is now an English professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Seventy Septembers by Mary Best
Mules and Mississippi by Patti Carr Black
Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom by Unita Blackwell (loose print form)
Bible Character Study Vol. 1 by Jacob T. Blocker
The Crisis Drug Prohibition edited by David Boaz
The Cyclops Window: a view into Southern Life by Sally Bolding
Echoes of the Southland Book 2 by Ann Bradley and Lawrence A. Sharpe
Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River by Marion Bragg
Allen H. Godbey by Clarence H. Brandon
An Introduction to the Bible by Clarence H. Brandon
Present Tense by Sharon Brown
Who Needs Hair: The flipside of Chemotherapy by Sallie Astor Burdine
Burrus Family History
The Angry Scar by Hodding Carter
The Ballad of Catfoot Grimes and Other Verses by Hodding Carter
The Commandos of WWII by Hodding Carter
Doomed Road of Empire by Hodding Carter
Election Bet by Hodding Carter in Best Stories from Liberty
First Person Rural by Hodding Carter
Flood Crest by Hodding Carter
Flushed by Hodding Carter
Gulf Coast Country by Hodding Carter and Anthony Ragusin
John Law Wasn’t So Wrong by Hodding Carter
Lower Mississippi by Hodding Carter
Man and the River by Hodding Carter
The Marquis de Lafayette by Hodding Carter
MS Black Paper by Hodding Carter
The Past as Prelude edited by Hodding Carter
The Reagan Years by Hodding Carter
Robert G. Lee and the Road of Honor by Hodding Carter
So The Heffners Left McComb by Hodding Carter
The South Strikes Back by Hodding Carter
Southern Legacy by Hodding Carter
Stolen Water by Hodding Carter
Their Words Were Bullets by Hodding Carter
Viking Voyage by Hodding Carter
Westward by Hodding Carter
The Winds of Fear by Hodding Carter
Where Main Street Meets the River by Hodding Carter
Wild Places by W. Hodding Carter
Memiors of the Hodding Carter Family
William Hodding Carter II was a prominent Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author. Carter was born in Hammond, Louisiana, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. In 1939, Carter moved to Greenville, a Mississippi Delta city and the seat of Washington County, where he launched his successful Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, a newspaper later published, by his oldest son William Hodding Carter III and later by his second son Philip Dutartre Carter.He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his editorials, in particular a series lambasting the ill treatment of Japanese-American soldiers returning from World War II.He also wrote editorials in the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times regarding social and economic intolerance in the Deep South that won him widespread acclaim and the moniker “Spokesman of the New South”.
The Delta Council by William M. Cash and Daryl Lewis
Call me Caz by James Cazalas
Southern Poets by Harry Hayden Clarie, Gen. Ed.
Australian Adventures: Letters from an Ambassador’s Wife by Anne Clark
Historic Homes of San Augustine by Anne Clark
Delta Land Photography scanned book by Maude Schuyler Clay
The MS Delta and the World by James C. Cobb
The Fabulous Democrats by David L. Cohn
Combustion on Wheels by David L. Cohn
This is the Story by David L. Cohn
Where I Was Born and Raised by David L. Cohn
Love in America by David L. Cohn
The South by the editors of Look in collaboration with David L. Cohn
Life & Times of King of Cotton by David L. Cohn
The Fabulous Democrats by David L. Cohn
Where I Was Born and Raised by David Cohn
Combustion on Wheels by David L. Cohn
Articles written by David L. Cohn in the following serial issues:Atlantic Monthly, May 1937, v. 159 n. 5
Atlantic Monthly, November 1937, v. 160 n. 5
Atlantic Monthly, August 1939, v. 164 n. 2
Atlantic Monthly, May 1939, v. 163 n. 5
Atlantic Monthly, February 1939, v. 163 n. 2
Atlantic Monthly, July 1938, v. 162 n. 1
Atlantic Monthly, August 1940, v. 166 n. 2
Atlantic Monthly, June 1940, v. 165 n. 6
Atlantic Monthly, May 1940, v. 165 n. 5
Atlantic Monthly, April 1940, v. 165 n. 6
Atlantic Monthly, March 1940, v. 165 n. 3
Atlantic Monthly, January 1940, v. 165 n. 1
Atlantic Monthly, April 1941, v. 167 n. 4
Atlantic Monthly, August 1941, v. 168 n. 2
Atlantic Monthly, December 1939, v. 164 n. 6
Atlantic Monthly, August 1940, v. 166
Atlantic Monthly, October 1940, v. 166 n. 4\
Reader’s Digest, June 1944
Reader’ Digest, November 1940
Reader’ Digest, July 1940
Reader’ Digest, September 1940
Reader’ Digest, May 1940
Reader’ Digest, March 1952
Reader’ Digest, June 1948
Reader’ Digest, January 1948
Reader’ Digest, November 1947
Reader’ Digest, October 1946
Mississippi Portraiture by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the state of Mississippi
Jambalaya of Long Ago and Far Away by W.A.Connelly
Caithness House by Louise Henry Cowan
Trapped by Louise Henry Cowan
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
American writers by Tom P. Cross, Reed Smith, Elmer C. Stauffer, and Elizabeth Collette
The Face of Fear by Louise Eskrigge Crump
Helen Templeton’s Daughter by Louise Eskrigge Crump
The Delta Cook Book
The Twentieth Century Cook Book
Through the Crack by Charitta by D. Danley
Deep’n as it Come by Pete Daniel
Prisms of the Soul Writings from a Sisterhood of Faith edited by Marcy Darin
The Mississippi Delta by Cora Matheny Dorsett
Apostles of Light by Ellen Doulas
Black Cloud, White Cloud by Ellen Douglas
Can’t Quit You, Baby by Ellen Douglas
The Delta Review by Ellen Douglas and Walker Percy
A Family’s Affairs by Ellen Douglas
The Lifetime Burning by Ellen Douglas
A Long Night by Ellen Douglas
The Magic Carpet retold by Ellen Douglas
Truth by Ellen Douglas
The Rock Cried Out by Ellen Douglas
The Southern Quarterly by Ellen Douglas
Witnessing by Ellen Douglas
Where the Dreams Cross by Ellen Douglas
Ellen Douglas was the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton, whose first novel, “A Family’s Affairs,” drew praise from critics on its publication in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin. Throughout her career, Ms. Douglas was praised for her unflinching yet sympathetic characterizations, and for her ear for the nuances of Southern speech as it varied across the races and the sexes.Her other novels include “Apostles of Light” (1973), which was a finalist for a National Book Award in 1974.Josephine Chamberlain Ayres was born in Natchez, Miss., and reared in Hope, Ark., and Alexandria, La. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Mississippi, at which she later taught writing for many years.
Speeding Floods to the Sea by W.E. Elam, M.Am. Soc. C.E.
Scottie’s Story by Ernest D. Elliott, Th.M., D.D.
So Great a Good: A History of the Episcopal Church in Louisiana and of Christ Church Cathedral 1805-1955
Like Some Green Laurel Letters of Margaret Johnson Erwin 1821-1863 by John Seymour Erwin
An Outline of Four Generations of the Family of Henry Fox and His Wife Sarah Harrell Fox of South Carolina and Mississippi by Shirley Faucette and William D. McCain
Whitetail by David Fey
The Coat I Wore by Lucille Finlay
Grant of Land by Lucile Finlay
Race and the News Media edited by Paul L. Fisher and Ralph L. Lowenstein
Perry’s Dead (and the Juice is Loose) by Victor A. Fleming
Real Lawyers Do Change Their Briefs by Victor A. Fleming
This is Our Story… This is Our Song… First United Methodist Church Greenville, MS
The Civil War Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
The Civil War Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
The Civil War Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
Follow Me Down by Shelby Foote
Jordan County by Shelby Foote
Love in a Dry Season by Shelby Foote
September, September by Shelby Foote
Shiloh by Shelby Foote
Three Novels by Shelby Foote
Tournament by Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi, and at the age of fifteen began a a lifelong friendship and literary relationship with Walker Percy. Foote later became an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote’s life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote gained public celebrity status after his appearance in Ken Burns’s PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990.
Grey Wolf, Grey Sea by E.B. Gasaway
Laws, Practices, and Policies Relative to Religion and Public Higher Education in Mississippi by James Delma Gilbert
Texas: A Literary Portrait by Don Graham
Looking Around Mississippi by Walt Grayson
Looking Around Mississippi Some More by Walt Grayson
Jackson: The Good Life by Walt Grayson
Delta Ice: The Storm of 1994 by Greenville Arts Council
The National geographic Magazine September 1927, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor
The Modern Talent by John Edward Hardy
Leader by Robert Hargrove
Alluvial Empire by Robert Harrison
Levee Districts and Levee Building in Mississippi by Robert Harrison
The Strict Economy of Fire by Ava Leavell Haymond
The Fourtune Hunters by Charlotte Hays
The Women’s Quarterly edited by Charlotte Hays
Being Dead is No Excuse by Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe
Somebody is Going to Die if Lilly Beth Doesn’t Catch that Bouquet by Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe
Someday You’ll Thank Me For This Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe
Dances for Flute and Thunder by Brooks Haxton
Dead Reckoning by Brooks Haxton
Dominion by Brooks Haxton
Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Herclitus translated by Brooks Haxton
The Lay of Eleanor and Irene by Brooks Haxton
*Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero by Brooks Haxton
The Sun at Night Poems by Brooks Haxton
Traveling Company by Brooks Haxton
Uproar by Brooks Haxton
Victor Hugo: Selected Poems translated by Brooks Haxton
Brooks Haxton is the son of fellow Mississippi author Josephine Ayres Haxton, also known as Ellen Douglas. He has received awards, fellowships, and grants of support for original poetry, translation, and script-writing from the NEA, NEH, Guggenheim Foundation, and others. Brooks Haxton also has taught poetry writing and literature courses for thirty years at several schools including Syracuse University, Warren Wilson College, and Sarah Lawrence College.
The Undiscovered Country by Kenneth Haxton
The Early History of the Hebrew Union Congregation of Greenville, MS
The Delta Ministry by Bruce Hilton
Heads And Tails by Malvina Hoffman
Sculpture Inside and Out by Malvina Hoffman
Flyway to Heaven Waterfowl I.D. Book by George Hollowell
This is the South by Robert West Howard
Freedom City by Leon Howell
Lyric South by Hubbard
Delta Heat by Patricia S. Jackson
The Golden Years by Margaret Moore Jacobs
I Believe by Margaret Moore Jacobs
Abstraction at Work: Drawings by Valerie Johnson 1973-1999
Poems that mean Something by W. A. Johnson
In the Deep Heart’s Core by Michael Johnston
American History edited by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
American Journeys forworded by Bern Keating
Chaka King of the Zulus by Bern Keating
Chopper! By Bern Keating
Famous American Cowboys by Bern Keating
Famous American Explorers by Bern Keating
The Flamboyant Mr. Colt and His Deadly 6-Shooter by Bern Keating
The Grand Banks by Bern Keating
The Gulf of Mexico by Bern Keating
A History of Washington County, MS by Bern Keating
The Horse That Won the Civil War by Bern Keating
Inside Passage by Bern Keating
The Invaders of Rome by Bern Keating
The Legend of the Delta Queen by Bern Keating
The Mighty Mississippi by Bern Keating
Mississippi by Bern Keating
Steamboatin’ Log: Ohio and Cumberland Rivers by Bern Keating
Steamboatin’ Log: Lower Mississippi River by Bern Keating
The Mosquito Fleet by Bern Keating
The North Passage by Bern Keating
Texas Rangers by Bern Keating
Zebulon Pike by Bern Keating
Florida by Bern Keating and Franke Keating
Voyages of the Royal Vikings by Bern Keating and Harvey Lloyd
Bern and Franke Keating were an artistic power couple and literary forces in the Delta. While neither were born in Greenville, after moving there in 1946, they made it their home. Bern became a world photographer and won many awards including a Pulitzer. He has received awards including the West Heritage Foundation Award for Famous American Explorers and the National Graphic Arts Award for Florida. Bern and Franke also received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters’ Lifetime Achievement Award, an award that had previously only been given to Walker Percy and Eudora Welty.
A Young American Looks at Denmark by Kate Keating
A Young American Looks at France by Kate Keating
A Young American Looks at Italy by Kate Keating
The Kings Daughters Hospital 1894-1994
The Limits of Hope by Anne Kimble Loux
The Mentally Retarded Child and His Family by Harold D. Love
Exceptional Children in a Modern Society by Harold D. Love
The Mississippi Chinese by James W. Loewen
The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in Old Southwest MS, 1770-1860 by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis
Mississippi Conflict & Change by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis
Breaking Gentle by Beverly Lowery
Come Back, Lolly Ray by Beverly Lowery
Daddy’s Girl by Beverly Lowery
Emma Blue by Beverly Lowery
The Perfect Sonya by Beverly Lowery
The Track of Real Desires by Beverly Lowery
Beverly Lowry was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but she grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. After a time in New York City acting, Lowry wrote her first novel, Come Back, Lolly Rae, published in 1977, which was followed by Emma Blue in 1978. Both are set in the Mississippi town of Eunola (thought to be Greenville). Within her career of writing seven novels and numerous other works, Lowry has received awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Black Warrior Review, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She has also served as president of the Texas Institute of Letters and the recipient of the 2007 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award at the Natchez Literary Festival.
The Black American and the Press by Jack Lyle
Polar Bear Cubs by Downs Matthews
Untied Masonic Relief Published by The Mason Service Association of the U.S
My Birthright by Eudora Varnell May
Papers of the Washington County Historical Society by McCain and Capers
Arkansas Mischief: The Birth of a National Scandal by Jim McDougal and Curtis Wilkie
Bouquets and Bitters by Julian R. Meade
Over the Hills of My Book House edited by Olive Beaupre Miller
Incident at Ashton by Jay Milner
Fishing on the Gulf Coast by Howard Mitcham
Maya O Maya! By Howard Mitcham
Provincetown Seafood Cookbook by Howard Mitcham
Great Uncle Crosby Smith’s Newly Discovered Testimony to the 1955 Murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi by Steve Mitchell
Valerie Jaudon by Mississippi Museum of Art
Poetry from the Heart by Doyle Misskelley
Mississippi Politics by Jere Nash and Andy Taggart
The Flaming Turkey by Robert Hitt Neill
The Holy the Ghost has a Funny Bone by Robert Hitt Neill
How to Lose Your Farm in Ten Easy Lessons and Cope with It by Robert Hitt Neill and James R Baugh
The Jakes! by Robert Hitt Neill
Mississippi Karo Tales by Robert Hitt Neill
Robert Hitt Neill is a native of the small plantation community of Brownspur, Mississippi and later graduated from Leland High School. After graduating from Ole Miss. Neill served in combat as a Navy Officer during the Vietnam War, then farmed for 20 years after the service, while writing as a hobby. His writing was first published in 1985, and he became a full-time author & speaker two years later. He has published 12 books, 1500+ magazine articles, written a weekly syndicated newspaper column for 25 years, and spoken over 1500 times in 25 states as a professional storyteller. Neill has won dozens of writing awards, and has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also been President of the Library Board, served as Arts Council Treasurer, and is a Family Reading Bonds Storyteller for the MS Dept. of Humanities.
Rhyme and Reason by Fredricka Nelken
The Delta Ministry: Black Power, Poverty, & Politics in the MS Delta by Gaile Patricia Noble
We Dissent by Hoke Norris
My Dear Nellie: Civil War Letters of William L. Nugent to Eleanor Smith Nugent
Delta Degameron by Delta Writers by Ellen Orr and Evelyn Allen Hammett
The Potter’s Clay by Jane Taylor Overton
Out on Egypt Ridge by George Patterson
Three Wars and a Flood: Memoirs of Lt. Gen. A.G. Paxton
The Collected Poems of W.A. Percy 1885-1942
Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander PercyIn April Once by William Alexander Percy
Of Silence and Stars by W.A. Percy
Poems of Arthur Oshaughnessy selected and edited by W.A. Percy
Sappho in Levankas and Other Poems by W.A. Percy
Selected Poems W.A. Percy
Sewanee by William Alexander Percy
William Alexander Percy was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. From 1925 to 1932, Percy edited the Yale Younger Poets series, the first of its kind in the country. He also published four volumes of poetry with the Yale University Press. A Southern man of letters, Percy befriended many fellow writers, Southern, Northern and European, including William Faulkner. He socialized with Langston Hughes and other people in and about the Harlem Renaissance. Percy also acted as a sort of godfather to the Fugitives at Vanderbilt, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren.
Lancelot by Walker Percy
The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
Love in the Runs by Walker Percy
The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Robert Coles by Walker Percy
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
The Southern Quarterly by Walker Percy
The Thantos Syndrome by Walker Percy
Walker Percy was a Southern author known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. His work displays a unique combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith. Percy also taught and mentored younger writers much like his cousin W.A. Percy. While teaching at Loyola University of New Orleans, he was instrumental in getting John Kennedy Toole’s novel A Confederacy of Dunces published in 1980, more than a decade after Toole’s death, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Percy joined along with 21 other noted authors to create the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
The Pleasure of Your Company by Ann Platz and Susan Wales
Social Graces by Ann Platz and Susan Wales
Cotton Culture on Hard Scramble Plantation by D.J. Pledger and D.J. Pledger, Jr
The O. Henry Awards edited by Richard Poirier
An Anthology of MS Writers edited by Noel E. Polk and James R. Scafidel
Exploring the Bible by Owens R. Rachleff
Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties by Julia Reed
The House on First Street by Julia Reed
Queen of the Turtle Derby by Julia Reed
Julia Reed, besides writing books, is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where she writes the “food and drink” column, and creative director of taigan.com, a retail website where she also edits the site’s “magazine,” Fetch. She also appears regularly on CNN and is a contributor to Garden and Gun, Conde Nast Traveler, ElleDécor, The New York Times and Vogue. From 1988 to 2008, she was senior writer at Vogue and, today, she is chairman of the board of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, where she lives.
Belle of the Brawl by Thomas P. Reynolds
Memphis by Nicky Robertshaw
Merival by James Robertshaw
Fatal Stranger by Anne Reed Rooth
The Ninth Car by Anne Reed Rooth
Southern Exposure by Anne Reed Rooth
The Presidential Questioner by Sally Salmon in C-Span American’s Town Hall
A History of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion by David Sansing and Carroll Waller
Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi by David Sansing
Mississippi by David Sansing
Mississippi History Through Four Centuries by David Sansing and John Ray Skates
Natchez: an Illustrated History by David Sansing, Sim Callon, and Carolyn Vance Smith
What was Freedom’s Price edited by David Sansing
Peoples Bank & Trust Co. by David G. Sansing
St. James Church Greenville, MS 1869-1946
Gourmet of the Delta by St. John’s Woman Auxiliary
On the Way Home: Twelve Stories from the Mississippi Delta introduced by Elizabeth Sarcone
Memoirs of A Mississippi Misfit by Jessie Schell in McCall’s
Happy Endings by Jessie Schell in McCall’s March 1979
Sudina by Jessie Schell
On the Beginning of night by Malcolm David Scott
Be Glad… by Ted Shepherd
Be Still… by Ted Shepherd
He Gave by Ted Shepherd
Lantern Light by Ted Shepherd
Observation of an Octogenarian by Ted Shepherd
Shantyboat Preacher by Ted Shepherd
707 South Broadway Greenville, Mississippi 1924-1943 by Ted Shepherd
A History of The Mississippi Supreme Court, 1817-1948 by John Ray Skate, JR
Mississippi: A History by John Ray Skates
The Invasion of Japan by John Ray Skates
Mississippi’s Present and Past by John R. Skates, Jr
John Ray Skates, Jr. was born in Catchings, Mississippi. While pursuing his college degrees in Mississippi, Dr. Skates joined the army reserve and after obtaining the rank of colonel, retired in 1986. Dr. Skates’ teaching career began in the early 1960s and continues to the present. From 1963 to 1966, he served as an instructor and later assistant professor of history at Mississippi State College for Women. In 1966, Dr. Skates and his wife relocated to Hattiesburg, Mississippi where he became assistant professor of history and later chairman of the department at The University of Southern Mississippi in 1969. After stepping down as chairman in 1978, Skates remained at U.S.M. as a professor of history, teaching in the subject areas of Mississippi, recent South, and United States military history.
In 1984, Dr. Skates traveled to Washington, D.C., where he served as historical adviser to the Department of Defense in commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy. From 1986 to 1988, he was a visiting professor at the Center of Military History in Washington where he completed research on the planned invasion of Japan during World War II. Skates also has served as assistant editor of the Journal of Mississippi History and president of the Mississippi Historical Society.
Coronet January 1940 by David A. Smart, Publisher
Good Old Days, Arcola School 1947-48 by Emmett Smith
A Symposium on the Place of Discovery of the Mississippi River by Hernando de Soto
The Soul of Southern Cooking by Cathy Starr
Polar Bears by Ian Stirling
The Open Door to Poetry by Anne Stokes
White Trash: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poets edited by Nancy Stone and Robert Walters Grey
Eight Habits of the Heart by Clifton L. Taulbert
The Journey Home by Clifton L. Taulbert
The Last Train North by Clifton L. Taulbert
Little Cliff’s First Day of School by Clifton L. Taulbert
Little Cliff and the Porch People by Clifton L. Taulbert
Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored by Clifton L. Taulbert
Separate, but Equal by Clifton L. TaulbertWatching Our Crops Come In by Clifton L. Taulbert
Clifton L. Taulbert was born in Glen Allan, Mississippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, in 1945. Besides writing, Taulbert has also founded the Building Community Institute, a consulting company focused on human capital development and organizational effectiveness. Since the founding of the company, his philosophy has been embraced by such companies as Lockheed Martin, Bank of America, Baxter Healthcare, Pacific Coast Gas, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and K-12 and post-secondary academic leadership around the world-from China to the Mississippi Delta.
As a Pulitzer-Nominee, he has authored thirteen books, several of which are fundamental to his consulting philosophy: Eight Habits of the Heart and Who Owns the Ice House-Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur. Eight Habits has become a foundation to his work on leveraging community as an asset in the workplace, and garnered him an invitation to address members of the United States Supreme Court as a personal guest of former Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor. Who Owns the Ice House is part of a Kauffman Foundation sponsored education initiative to expose the impact of the entrepreneurial mindset at all levels.
In Search of Self: Life, Death, and Walker Percy by Jerome Taylor
Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta by William Banks Taylor
A Brief History of the Greenville Foundation and some Conclusions about How the Promise Failed by C. S. Tindall, Jr
Son of a Sea Cook Cookbook by Capt. Kenneth P. Tolliver
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy edited by Jay Tolson
Shelby Foote and Walker Percy edited by Jay Tolson
G.I.’s View of WWII by Ben Tumey
Lift Every Voice by Dr. Walter Turnbull
Some Wildflower in My Heart by Jamie Langston Turner
Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner
Singing Mississippi edited by Alice Mayes Virden
Masters of Merigold: 40 years of McCarty Pottery by the University of Mississippi
The Reconstruction of the Racist by Ann Waldron
The Modern Christmas in America by William B. Waits
Washington County: A Pictorial History Vol.1 1998
Washington County Historical Society Programs – 1977, ‘78, ‘79, ‘80, ‘81, ‘82, ‘83, ‘84
Count no’ Count by Ben Wasson
Ben Wasson met William Faulkner at the University of Mississippi, where both were students. Their interest in art and literature drew them together. Later Wasson became Faulkner’s first literary agent, as well as an adviser and sounding board. In New York Wasson edited a Faulkner manuscript into a readable length and it was later published as Sartoris. Also, Wasson helped Faulkner to place The Sound and the Fury with a new York publisher. Their friendship lasted for more than thirty years as their paths crossed and recrossed in New York, Hollywood, and Mississippi.
Bird of Courage by Wade S. Weiman, Jr
East of the Slash by Wade S. Weiman, Jr
Shadows over Sunnyside edited by Jeannie M. Whayne
Savannah Brown by Erma Winfield
Shelby Foote by Helen White and Redding Sugg
Diary of Amanda Worthington
A Vanishing America by Holt Richard Winston
My Dining Generation by Margaret B. Wynn
The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough
Veneer by Steve Yarbrough
Visible Spirits by Steve Yarbrough
Steve Yarbrough, born in Indianola, Mississippi, is a novelist and short story writer. Writing largely within the Southern tradition, he draws his themes and characters from Southern history and more in ways that have been compared to Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, and Willie Morris. His honors include the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, and an award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. His novel, Prisoners of War, was a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner award. He has also won the 2010 Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. Yarbrough is currently a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston.
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