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Mississippi Authors \u00b7 Back to collection home<\/a><\/p>\n[\/heading][vc_column_text]\n

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This collection includes works by writers influenced by the creative\u00a0ambiance\u00a0of the Mississippi Delta.\u00a0Delta State University is fortunate\u00a0to house this priceless and unique assembly of works, which include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and O\u2019Henry Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prize Stories 1975 The O. Henry Awards<\/i>, William Abrahams<\/p>\n

The Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1927 by the American National Red Cross<\/i><\/p>\n

New Short Novels <\/i>edited by Mary Louise Aswell<\/p>\n

Blood On The Forge<\/i> by William Attaway\"attaway\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Hear America Singing by William Attaway<\/i><\/p>\n

Let Me Breathe Thunder<\/i> by William Attaway<\/p>\n

Tough Kid <\/i>by William Attaway<\/p>\n

William Alexander Attaway\u00a0was an African American\u00a0novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter.\u00a0Attaway was born \u00a0in\u00a0Greenville, Mississippi, but at the age of\u00a0\u00a0six moved with his family moved to\u00a0Chicago, Illinois, as part of the Great Migration.<\/h6>\n
His first short story, \u201cTale of the Blackamoor\u201d, was published in 1936.\u00a0In 1939, Attaway\u2019s first novel,\u00a0Let Me Breathe Thunder<\/i>, was published. He then began working on his second and last novel,\u00a0Blood on the Forge<\/i>.\u00a0After\u00a0Blood on the Forge<\/i>, Attaway began to write songs, screenplays, and books about music.\u00a0His main works include\u00a0Calypso Song Book<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Hear America Singing<\/i>. Attaway and\u00a0Irving Burgie\u00a0co-wrote the famous song \u201cDay-O\u201d (Banana Boat Song) . In the 1950s, Attaway became the first African American to write scripts for film and TV.
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The Percys of Mississippi by Lewis Baker<\/i><\/p>\n

The Measure: A Journal of Poetry<\/i> by Witter Banner, W.A. Percy, Raymond Holden, and others<\/p>\n

Rising Tide<\/i> by John M. Barry <\/i><\/p>\n

A History of the Inland River Port<\/i> by Colonel Miltion P. Barschdorf<\/p>\n

Five Chambered Heart<\/i> by Charles G. Bell\"berry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Half Gods<\/i> by Charles G. Bell<\/p>\n

Divorce Boxing, Poems by D.C. Berry<\/p>\n

Jawbone by D. C. Berry<\/i><\/p>\n

Saigon Cemetery<\/i> by D.C. Berry<\/p>\n

The Vietnam Ecclesiastes by D.C. Berry <\/i><\/p>\n

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,\u00a0Saigon Cemetery<\/i>\u00a0(1972). After he returned home, he enrolled in graduate work at the\u00a0University of Tennessee, where he received a Ph.D. in English in 1973. He is now an English professor at the\u00a0University of Southern Mississippi.<\/h6>\n

Seventy Septembers by Mary Best<\/i><\/p>\n

Mules and Mississippi<\/i> by Patti Carr Black<\/p>\n

Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom by Unita Blackwell (loose print form)<\/p>\n

Bible Character Study<\/i> Vol. 1 by Jacob T. Blocker<\/p>\n

The Crisis Drug Prohibition<\/i> edited by David Boaz<\/p>\n

The Cyclops Window: a view into Southern Life by Sally Bolding<\/i><\/p>\n

Echoes of the Southland Book<\/i> 2 by Ann Bradley and Lawrence A. Sharpe<\/p>\n

Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River by Marion Bragg<\/i><\/p>\n

Allen H. Godbey<\/i> by Clarence H. Brandon<\/p>\n

An Introduction to the Bible<\/i> by Clarence H. Brandon<\/p>\n

Present Tense <\/i>by Sharon Brown<\/p>\n

Who Needs Hair: The flipside of Chemotherapy by Sallie Astor Burdine<\/p>\n

Burrus Family History<\/p>\n

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The Angry Scar <\/i>by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

The Ballad of Catfoot Grimes and Other Verses<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

The Commandos of WWII by<\/i> Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Doomed Road of Empire<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Election Bet by Hodding Carter in Best Stories from Liberty<\/i><\/p>\n

First Person Rural <\/i>by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Flood Crest<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Flushed<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Gulf Coast Country<\/i> by Hodding Carter and Anthony Ragusin<\/p>\n

John Law Wasn\u2019t So Wrong<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Lower Mississippi<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Man and the River<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

The Marquis de Lafayette<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

MS Black Paper<\/em> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

The Past as Prelude<\/i> edited by Hodding Carter\"carter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Reagan Years<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Robert G. Lee and the Road of Honor<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

So The Heffners Left McComb<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

The South Strikes Back<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Southern Legacy<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Stolen Water<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Their Words Were Bullets<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Viking Voyage<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Westward <\/i>by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

The Winds of Fear<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Where Main Street Meets the River<\/i> by Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Wild Places<\/em> by W. Hodding Carter<\/p>\n

Memiors of the Hodding Carter Family<\/p>\n

William Hodding Carter II\u00a0was a prominent\u00a0Southern\u00a0U.S.\u00a0progressive\u00a0journalist and author. Carter was born in\u00a0Hammond, Louisiana, the largest community in\u00a0Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern\u00a0Louisiana. In 1939, Carter moved to\u00a0Greenville, a\u00a0Mississippi Delta\u00a0city and the seat of\u00a0Washington County, where he launched his successful\u00a0Greenville Delta Democrat-Times<\/i>, a newspaper later published, by his oldest son\u00a0William Hodding Carter III\u00a0and later by his second son Philip Dutartre Carter.He won the\u00a0Pulitzer Prize\u00a0in 1946 for his editorials, in particular a series lambasting the ill treatment of\u00a0Japanese-American\u00a0\u00a0soldiers returning from\u00a0World War II.He also wrote editorials in the\u00a0Greenville Delta Democrat-Times<\/i>\u00a0regarding social and economic intolerance in the\u00a0Deep South\u00a0that won him widespread acclaim and the moniker \u201cSpokesman of the\u00a0New South\u201d.<\/h6>\n

The Delta Council<\/i> by William M. Cash and Daryl Lewis<\/p>\n

Call me Caz by James Cazalas<\/i><\/p>\n

Southern Poets<\/i> by Harry Hayden Clarie, Gen. Ed.<\/p>\n

Australian Adventures: Letters from an Ambassador\u2019s Wife<\/i> by Anne Clark<\/p>\n

\u00a0Historic Homes of San Augustine<\/i> by Anne Clark<\/p>\n

Delta Land Photography scanned book by Maude Schuyler Clay<\/i><\/p>\n

The MS Delta and the World <\/i>by James C. Cobb<\/p>\n

The Fabulous Democrats<\/i> by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

Combustion on<\/i> Wheels by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

This is the Story<\/i> by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

Where I Was Born and Raised<\/i> by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

Love in America<\/i> by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

The South <\/i>by the editors of Look in collaboration with David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

Life & Times of King of Cotton <\/i>by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

The Fabulous Democrats<\/i> by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

Where I Was Born and Raised<\/i> by David Cohn<\/p>\n

Combustion on Wheels<\/i> by David L. Cohn<\/p>\n

Articles written by David L. Cohn in the following serial issues:Atlantic Monthly, May 1937, v. 159 n. 5<\/p>\n

Atlantic Monthly, November 1937, v. 160 n. 5
\nAtlantic Monthly, August 1939, v. 164 n. 2
\nAtlantic Monthly, May 1939, v. 163 n. 5
\nAtlantic Monthly, February 1939, v. 163 n. 2
\nAtlantic Monthly, July 1938, v. 162 n. 1
\nAtlantic Monthly, August 1940, v. 166 n. 2
\nAtlantic Monthly, June 1940, v. 165 n. 6
\nAtlantic Monthly, May 1940, v. 165 n. 5
\nAtlantic Monthly, April 1940, v. 165 n. 6
\nAtlantic Monthly, March 1940, v. 165 n. 3
\nAtlantic Monthly, January 1940, v. 165 n. 1
\nAtlantic Monthly, April 1941, v. 167 n. 4
\nAtlantic Monthly, August 1941, v. 168 n. 2
\nAtlantic Monthly, December 1939, v. 164 n. 6
\nAtlantic Monthly, August 1940, v. 166
\nAtlantic Monthly, October 1940, v. 166 n. 4\\
\nReader\u2019s Digest, June 1944
\nReader\u2019 Digest, November 1940
\nReader\u2019 Digest, July 1940
\nReader\u2019 Digest, September 1940
\nReader\u2019 Digest, May 1940
\nReader\u2019 Digest, March 1952
\nReader\u2019 Digest, June 1948
\nReader\u2019 Digest, January 1948
\nReader\u2019 Digest, November 1947
\nReader\u2019 Digest, October 1946<\/p>\n

Mississippi Portraiture by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the state of Mississippi<\/p>\n

Jambalaya of Long Ago and Far Away<\/i> by W.A.Connelly<\/p>\n

Caithness House<\/i> by Louise Henry Cowan<\/p>\n

Trapped<\/i> by Louise Henry Cowan<\/p>\n

The Red Badge of Courage<\/i> by Stephen Crane<\/p>\n

American writers <\/i>by Tom P. Cross, Reed Smith, Elmer C. Stauffer, and Elizabeth Collette <\/i><\/p>\n

The Face of Fear<\/i> by Louise Eskrigge Crump<\/p>\n

Helen Templeton\u2019s Daughter<\/i> by Louise Eskrigge Crump<\/p>\n

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The Delta Cook Book<\/i><\/p>\n

The Twentieth Century Cook Book<\/i><\/p>\n

Through the Crack by<\/i> Charitta by D. Danley<\/p>\n

Deep\u2019n as it Come<\/i> by Pete Daniel<\/p>\n

Prisms of the Soul Writings from a Sisterhood of Faith<\/i> edited by Marcy Darin<\/p>\n

The Mississippi Delta <\/i>by Cora Matheny Dorsett<\/p>\n

Apostles of Light<\/i> by Ellen Doulas<\/p>\n

Black Cloud, White Cloud<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t Quit You, Baby<\/i> by Ellen Douglas\"douglas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Delta Review<\/i> by Ellen Douglas and Walker Percy<\/p>\n

A Family\u2019s Affairs<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

The Lifetime Burning<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

A Long Night<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

The Magic Carpet<\/i> retold by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Truth<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

The Rock Cried Out<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

The Southern Quarterly<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Witnessing <\/i>by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Where the Dreams Cross<\/i> by Ellen Douglas<\/p>\n

Ellen Douglas was the pen name of Josephine Ayres Haxton, whose first novel, \u201cA Family\u2019s Affairs,\u201d 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 \u201cApostles of Light\u201d (1973), which was a finalist for a\u00a0National Book Award\u00a0in 1974.Josephine Chamberlain Ayres was born in Natchez, Miss., and reared in Hope, Ark., and Alexandria, La. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English from the University of Mississippi, at which she later taught writing for many years.<\/h6>\n

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Speeding Floods to the Sea<\/i> by W.E. Elam, M.Am. Soc. C.E.<\/p>\n

Scottie\u2019s Story<\/i> by Ernest D. Elliott, Th.M., D.D.<\/p>\n

So Great a Good: A History of the Episcopal Church in Louisiana and of Christ Church Cathedral 1805-1955<\/i><\/p>\n

Like Some Green Laurel Letters of Margaret Johnson Erwin 1821-1863 <\/i>by John Seymour Erwin<\/p>\n

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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<\/i><\/p>\n

Whitetail by David Fey<\/i><\/p>\n

The Coat I Wore<\/i> by Lucille Finlay<\/p>\n

Grant of Land<\/i> by Lucile Finlay <\/i><\/p>\n

Race and the News Media<\/i> edited by Paul L. Fisher and Ralph L. Lowenstein<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s Dead (and the Juice is Loose) by Victor A. Fleming<\/i><\/p>\n

Real Lawyers Do Change Their Briefs<\/i> by Victor A. Fleming<\/p>\n

This is Our Story\u2026 This is Our Song\u2026<\/i> First United Methodist Church Greenville, MS<\/p>\n

The Civil War Fort Sumter to Perryville <\/i>by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

The Civil War Fredericksburg to Meridian<\/i> by Shelby Foote\"percy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Civil War Red River to Appomattox<\/i> by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

Follow Me Down<\/em> by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

Jordan County<\/i> by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

Love in a Dry Season<\/i> by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

September, September by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

Shiloh <\/i>by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

Three Novels<\/i> by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

Tournament<\/i> by Shelby Foote<\/p>\n

\u00a0Shelby Foote\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0was born in\u00a0Greenville, Mississippi, and at the age of fifteen began a\u00a0a lifelong friendship and literary relationship with Walker Percy. Foote later became an American historian and\u00a0novelist\u00a0who wrote\u00a0The Civil War: A Narrative<\/i>, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the\u00a0Mississippi Delta, Foote\u2019s life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the\u00a0Old South\u00a0to the Civil Rights era of the\u00a0New South. Foote gained public celebrity status after his appearance in\u00a0Ken Burns\u2019s\u00a0PBS\u00a0documentary\u00a0The Civil War<\/i>\u00a0in 1990.<\/h6>\n

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Grey Wolf, Grey Sea by E.B. Gasaway<\/p>\n

Laws, Practices, and Policies Relative to Religion and Public Higher Education in Mississippi <\/i>by James Delma Gilbert<\/p>\n

Texas: A Literary Portrait<\/i> by Don Graham<\/p>\n

Looking Around Mississippi<\/i> by Walt Grayson<\/p>\n

Looking Around Mississippi<\/i> Some More by Walt Grayson<\/p>\n

Jackson: The Good Life<\/i> by Walt Grayson<\/p>\n

Delta Ice: The Storm of 1994 by<\/i> Greenville Arts Council<\/p>\n

The National geographic Magazine <\/i>September 1927, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor<\/p>\n

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The Modern Talent by John Edward Hardy<\/p>\n

Leader <\/i>by Robert Hargrove<\/p>\n

Alluvial Empire by<\/i> Robert Harrison<\/p>\n

Levee Districts and Levee Building in Mississippi by <\/i>Robert Harrison<\/p>\n

The Strict Economy of Fire<\/i> by Ava Leavell Haymond<\/p>\n

The Fourtune Hunters<\/i> by Charlotte Hays<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Quarterly edited by Charlotte Hays<\/p>\n

Being Dead is No Excuse<\/i> by Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe<\/p>\n

Somebody is Going to Die if Lilly Beth Doesn\u2019t Catch that Bouquet<\/i> by Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe<\/p>\n

Someday You\u2019ll Thank Me For This<\/i> Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe<\/p>\n

Dances for Flute and Thunder<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

Dead Reckoning<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

Dominion<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Herclitus<\/i> translated by Brooks Haxton\"haxton\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lay of Eleanor and Irene<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

*Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

The Sun at Night Poems<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

Traveling Company<\/i> by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

Uproar<\/i> by Brooks Haxton <\/i><\/p>\n

Victor Hugo: Selected Poems<\/i> translated by Brooks Haxton<\/p>\n

Brooks Haxton is the son of fellow Mississippi author\u00a0Josephine Ayres Haxton, also known as Ellen Douglas. He has\u00a0received awards, fellowships, and grants of support for original poetry, translation, and\u00a0script-writing\u00a0from the NEA, NEH, Guggenheim Foundation,\u00a0and others.\u00a0Brooks 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.<\/h6>\n

The Undiscovered Country<\/i> by Kenneth Haxton<\/p>\n

The Early History of the Hebrew Union Congregation<\/i> of Greenville, MS<\/p>\n

The Delta Ministry <\/i>by Bruce Hilton<\/p>\n

Heads And Tails<\/i> by Malvina Hoffman<\/p>\n

Sculpture Inside and Out<\/i> by Malvina Hoffman<\/p>\n

Flyway to Heaven Waterfowl I.D. Book<\/i> by George Hollowell<\/p>\n

This is the South<\/i> by Robert West Howard<\/p>\n

Freedom City<\/i> by Leon Howell<\/p>\n

Lyric South <\/i>by Hubbard<\/p>\n

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Delta Heat by<\/i> Patricia S. Jackson<\/p>\n

The Golden Years<\/i> by Margaret Moore Jacobs<\/p>\n

I Believe<\/i> by Margaret Moore Jacobs<\/p>\n

Abstraction at Work: Drawings <\/i>by Valerie Johnson 1973-1999<\/p>\n

Poems that mean Something <\/i>by W. A. Johnson<\/p>\n

In the Deep Heart\u2019s Core <\/i>by Michael Johnston<\/p>\n

American History<\/i> edited by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.<\/p>\n

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American Journeys forworded by Bern Keating<\/i><\/p>\n

Chaka King of the Zulus<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Chopper!<\/i> By Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Famous American Cowboys<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Famous American Explorers<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

The Flamboyant Mr. Colt and His Deadly 6-Shooter<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Grand Banks<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

The Gulf of Mexico<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

A History of Washington County, MS<\/i> by Bern Keating\"keating\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Horse That Won the Civil War<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Inside Passage<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

The Invaders of Rome<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

The Legend of the Delta Queen<\/i> by Bern Keating <\/i><\/p>\n

The Mighty Mississippi<\/i> by Bern Keating <\/i><\/p>\n

Mississippi b<\/i>y Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Steamboatin\u2019 Log: Ohio and Cumberland Rivers<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Steamboatin\u2019 Log: Lower Mississippi River by Bern Keating<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Mosquito Fleet<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

The North Passage<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Texas Rangers<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Zebulon Pike<\/i> by Bern Keating<\/p>\n

Florida <\/i>by Bern Keating and Franke Keating<\/p>\n

Voyages of the Royal Vikings<\/i> by Bern Keating and Harvey Lloyd<\/p>\n

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\u00a0won many awards including a Pulitzer. He has received awards including the West Heritage Foundation Award for\u00a0Famous American Explorers<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and the National Graphic Arts Award for\u00a0Florida<\/i><\/b>. Bern and Franke also received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters\u2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, an award that had previously only been given to Walker Percy and Eudora Welty.<\/h6>\n

A Young American Looks at Denmark<\/i> by Kate Keating<\/p>\n

A Young American Looks at France<\/i> by Kate Keating<\/p>\n

A Young American Looks at Italy<\/i> by Kate Keating<\/p>\n

The Kings Daughters Hospital<\/i> 1894-1994<\/p>\n

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The Limits of Hope by<\/i> Anne Kimble Loux<\/p>\n

The Mentally Retarded Child and His Family by Harold D. Love<\/p>\n

Exceptional Children in a Modern Society<\/i> by Harold D. Love<\/p>\n

The Mississippi Chinese<\/i> by James W. Loewen<\/p>\n

The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in Old Southwest MS, 1770-1860<\/i> by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis<\/p>\n

Mississippi Conflict & Change <\/i>by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis<\/p>\n

Breaking Gentle<\/i> by Beverly Lowery\"lowry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Come Back, Lolly Ray<\/i> by Beverly Lowery<\/p>\n

Daddy\u2019s Girl<\/i> by Beverly Lowery<\/p>\n

Emma Blue<\/i> by Beverly Lowery<\/p>\n

The Perfect Sonya<\/i> by Beverly Lowery<\/p>\n

The Track of Real Desires<\/i> by Beverly Lowery<\/p>\n

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\u00a0first novel,\u00a0Come Back, Lolly Rae<\/em><\/strong>, published in 1977, which was followed by\u00a0Emma Blue<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in 1978.\u00a0\u00a0 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\u00a0has 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\u00a0recipient of the 2007 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award at the Natchez Literary Festival.<\/h6>\n

The Black American and the Press by Jack Lyle<\/p>\n

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Polar Bear Cubs<\/i> by Downs Matthews<\/p>\n

Untied Masonic Relief<\/i> Published by The Mason Service Association of the U.S <\/i><\/p>\n

My Birthright<\/i> by Eudora Varnell May<\/p>\n

Papers of the Washington County Historical Society by<\/i> McCain and Capers<\/p>\n

Arkansas Mischief: The Birth of a National Scandal <\/i>by Jim McDougal and Curtis Wilkie<\/p>\n

Bouquets and Bitters<\/i> by Julian R. Meade<\/p>\n

Over the Hills of My Book House<\/i> edited by Olive Beaupre Miller<\/p>\n

Incident at Ashton<\/i> by Jay Milner<\/p>\n

Fishing on the Gulf Coast<\/i> by Howard Mitcham<\/p>\n

Maya O Maya<\/i>! By Howard Mitcham<\/p>\n

Provincetown Seafood Cookbook<\/i> by Howard Mitcham<\/p>\n

Great Uncle Crosby Smith\u2019s Newly Discovered Testimony to the 1955 Murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi by Steve Mitchell<\/i><\/p>\n

Valerie Jaudon by Mississippi Museum of Art <\/i><\/p>\n

Poetry from the Heart<\/i> by Doyle Misskelley<\/p>\n

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Mississippi Politics<\/i> by Jere Nash and Andy Taggart<\/p>\n

The Flaming Turkey<\/i> by Robert Hitt Neill<\/p>\n

The Holy the Ghost has a Funny Bone<\/i> by Robert Hitt Neill<\/p>\n

How to Lose Your Farm in Ten Easy Lessons and Cope with It <\/i>by Robert Hitt Neill and James R Baugh<\/p>\n

The Jakes!<\/i> by Robert Hitt Neill\"neill\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mississippi Karo Tales by<\/i> Robert Hitt Neill<\/p>\n

Robert Hitt Neill is a native of the\u00a0small plantation community of\u00a0Brownspur, Mississippi and later graduated from Leland High School. After graduating from Ole Miss.\u00a0Neill 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.\u00a0He 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.<\/h6>\n

Rhyme and Reason by Fredricka Nelken<\/i><\/p>\n

The Delta Ministry: Black Power, Poverty, & Politics in the MS Delta<\/i> by Gaile Patricia Noble<\/p>\n

We Dissent<\/i> by Hoke Norris<\/p>\n

My Dear Nellie: Civil War Letters of William L. Nugent to Eleanor Smith Nugent <\/i><\/p>\n

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Delta Degameron by<\/i> Delta Writers by Ellen Orr and Evelyn Allen Hammett<\/p>\n

The Potter\u2019s Clay<\/i> by Jane Taylor Overton<\/p>\n

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Out on Egypt Ridge<\/i> by George Patterson<\/p>\n

Three Wars and a Flood: Memoirs of Lt. Gen. A.G. Paxton<\/i><\/p>\n

The Collected Poems of W.A. Percy<\/i> 1885-1942<\/p>\n

Lanterns on the Levee<\/i> by William Alexander PercyIn April Once by William Alexander Percy<\/i><\/p>\n

Of Silence and Stars<\/i>\u00a0by W.A. Percy\"wa\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Poems of Arthur Oshaughnessy<\/i>\u00a0selected and edited by W.A. Percy<\/p>\n

Sappho in Levankas and Other Poems<\/i>\u00a0by W.A. Percy<\/p>\n

Selected Poems<\/i>\u00a0W.A. Percy<\/p>\n

Sewanee<\/i>\u00a0by William Alexander Percy<\/p>\n

William Alexander Percy\u00a0was a lawyer, planter, and poet from\u00a0Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography\u00a0Lanterns on the Levee<\/i>\u00a0became a bestseller.\u00a0From 1925 to 1932, Percy edited the\u00a0Yale Younger Poets<\/i>\u00a0series, the first of its kind in the country. He also published four volumes of poetry with the\u00a0Yale University Press. A Southern man of letters, Percy befriended many fellow writers, Southern, Northern and European, including\u00a0William Faulkner. He socialized with\u00a0Langston Hughes\u00a0and other people in and about the\u00a0Harlem Renaissance. Percy also acted as a sort of godfather to the\u00a0Fugitives\u00a0at\u00a0Vanderbilt,\u00a0John Crowe Ransom,\u00a0Allen Tate\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Penn Warren.<\/h6>\n

Lancelot <\/i>by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

Lost in the Cosmos<\/i> by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

Love in the Runs<\/i> by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

The Message in the Bottle by<\/i> Walker Percy<\/p>\n

The Moviegoer<\/i> by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

Robert Coles<\/i> by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

The Second Coming<\/i> by Walker Percy\"walkerpercy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Southern Quarterly <\/i>by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

The Thantos Syndrome<\/i> by Walker Percy<\/p>\n

Walker Percy\u00a0<\/b>was a\u00a0Southern author\u00a0known for his philosophical novels set in and around\u00a0New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which,\u00a0The Moviegoer<\/i>, won the U.S.\u00a0National Book Award for Fiction.\u00a0His work displays a unique combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep\u00a0Catholic faith.\u00a0Percy also taught and mentored younger writers much like his cousin W.A. Percy. While teaching at\u00a0Loyola University of New Orleans, he was instrumental in getting\u00a0John Kennedy Toole\u2019s novel\u00a0A Confederacy of Dunces<\/i>\u00a0published in 1980, more than a decade after Toole\u2019s death, which won the\u00a0Pulitzer Prize\u00a0for fiction.\u00a0Percy joined along with 21 other noted authors to\u00a0create the\u00a0Fellowship of Southern Writers.<\/h6>\n

The Pleasure of Your Company<\/i> by Ann Platz and Susan Wales<\/p>\n

Social Graces<\/i> by Ann Platz and Susan Wales<\/p>\n

Cotton Culture on Hard Scramble Plantation<\/i> by D.J. Pledger and D.J. Pledger, Jr <\/i><\/p>\n

The O. Henry Awards edited<\/i> by Richard Poirier<\/p>\n

An Anthology of MS Writers<\/i> edited by Noel E. Polk and James R. Scafidel<\/p>\n

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Exploring the Bible <\/i>by Owens R. Rachleff<\/p>\n

Ham<\/i> Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties<\/i> by Julia Reed<\/p>\n

The House on First Street<\/i> by Julia Reed\"reed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Queen of the Turtle<\/i> Derby by Julia Reed<\/p>\n

Julia Reed, besides writing books, is a contributing editor at\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>, where she writes the \u201cfood and drink\u201d column, and creative director of\u00a0taigan.com, a retail website where she also edits the site\u2019s \u201cmagazine,\u201d Fetch.\u00a0She also appears regularly on CNN and is a contributor to\u00a0Garden and Gun<\/em>,\u00a0Conde Nast Traveler<\/em>,\u00a0Elle<\/em>D\u00e9cor<\/em>,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Vogue<\/em>. 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.<\/h6>\n

Belle of the Brawl<\/i> by Thomas P. Reynolds<\/p>\n

Memphis by Nicky Robertshaw<\/i><\/p>\n

Merival by James Robertshaw<\/i><\/p>\n

Fatal Stranger<\/i> by Anne Reed Rooth <\/i><\/p>\n

The Ninth Car<\/i> by Anne Reed Rooth<\/p>\n

Southern Exposure<\/i> by Anne Reed Rooth<\/p>\n

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The Presidential Questioner by Sally Salmon in C-Span American\u2019s Town Hall<\/i><\/p>\n

A History of the Mississippi Governor\u2019s Mansion by David Sansing and Carroll Waller <\/i><\/p>\n

Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi by <\/i>David Sansing<\/p>\n

Mississippi by <\/i>David Sansing<\/p>\n

Mississippi History Through Four Centuries <\/i>by David Sansing and John Ray Skates<\/p>\n

Natchez: an Illustrated History <\/i>by David Sansing, Sim Callon, and Carolyn Vance Smith<\/p>\n

What was Freedom\u2019s Price edited by<\/i> David Sansing<\/p>\n

Peoples Bank & Trust Co. <\/i>by David G. Sansing<\/p>\n

St. James Church <\/i>Greenville, MS 1869-1946<\/p>\n

Gourmet of the Delta by St. John\u2019s Woman Auxiliary<\/p>\n

On the Way Home: Twelve Stories from the Mississippi Delta introduced by Elizabeth Sarcone<\/p>\n

Memoirs of A Mississippi Misfit by Jessie Schell in McCall\u2019s<\/p>\n

Happy Endings by Jessie Schell in McCall\u2019s March 1979<\/p>\n

Sudina<\/i> by Jessie Schell<\/p>\n

On the Beginning of night by Malcolm David Scott<\/p>\n

Be Glad\u2026 by Ted Shepherd <\/i><\/p>\n

Be Still\u2026<\/i> by Ted Shepherd<\/p>\n

He Gave<\/i> by Ted Shepherd<\/p>\n

Lantern Light by Ted Shepherd<\/p>\n

Observation of an Octogenarian<\/i> by Ted Shepherd<\/p>\n

Shantyboat Preacher<\/i> by Ted Shepherd<\/p>\n

707 South Broadway Greenville, Mississippi 1924-1943 by Ted Shepherd<\/i><\/p>\n

A History of The Mississippi Supreme Court, 1817-1948 by John Ray Skate, JR<\/i><\/p>\n

Mississippi: A History<\/i> by John Ray Skates\"skates\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Invasion of Japan<\/i> by John Ray Skates<\/i><\/p>\n

Mississippi\u2019s Present and Past by<\/i> John R. Skates, Jr<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0Dr. Skates\u2019 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.<\/h6>\n
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.\u00a0Skates also has served as assistant editor of the Journal of Mississippi History and president of the Mississippi Historical Society.<\/h6>\n

\u00a0Coronet January 1940<\/i> by David A. Smart, Publisher<\/p>\n

Good Old Days, Arcola School 1947-48 by Emmett Smith<\/i><\/p>\n

A Symposium on the Place of Discovery of the Mississippi River<\/i> by Hernando de Soto<\/p>\n

The Soul of Southern Cooking<\/i> by Cathy Starr<\/p>\n

Polar Bears<\/i> by Ian Stirling<\/p>\n

The Open Door to Poetry<\/i> by Anne Stokes<\/p>\n

White Trash: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poets<\/i> edited by Nancy Stone and Robert Walters Grey<\/p>\n

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Eight Habits of the Heart<\/i> by Clifton L. Taulbert<\/p>\n

The Journey Home by Clifton L. Taulbert<\/p>\n

The Last Train North<\/i> by Clifton L. Taulbert<\/p>\n

Little Cliff\u2019s First Day of School<\/i> by Clifton L. Taulbert\"taulbert\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Little Cliff and the Porch People<\/i> by Clifton L. Taulbert<\/p>\n

Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored by<\/i> Clifton L. Taulbert<\/p>\n

Separate, but Equal <\/i>by Clifton L. TaulbertWatching Our Crops Come In<\/i> by Clifton L. Taulbert<\/p>\n

Clifton L. Taulbert was born in\u00a0Glen Allan, Mississippi, a small town in the\u00a0Mississippi 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.<\/h6>\n
As a Pulitzer-Nominee, he has authored thirteen books, several of which are fundamental to his consulting philosophy: Eight Habits of the Heart<\/em> and Who Owns the Ice House-Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur<\/em>. Eight Habits<\/em> 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\u2019Connor. Who Owns the Ice House<\/em> is part of a Kauffman Foundation sponsored education initiative to expose the impact of the entrepreneurial mindset at all levels.<\/h6>\n

In Search of Self: Life, Death, and Walker Percy by Jerome Taylor<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta <\/i>by William Banks Taylor<\/p>\n

A Brief History of the Greenville Foundation and some Conclusions about How the Promise Failed <\/i>by C. S. Tindall, Jr<\/p>\n

Son of a Sea Cook Cookbook<\/i> by Capt. Kenneth P. Tolliver<\/p>\n

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy<\/i> edited by Jay Tolson<\/p>\n

Shelby Foote and Walker Percy<\/i> edited by Jay Tolson<\/p>\n

G.I.\u2019s View of WWII<\/i> by Ben Tumey<\/p>\n

Lift Every Voice<\/i> by Dr. Walter Turnbull<\/p>\n

Some Wildflower in My Heart by Jamie Langston Turner<\/p>\n

Winter Birds<\/i> by Jamie Langston Turner<\/p>\n

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Singing Mississippi edited by Alice Mayes Virden<\/p>\n

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Masters of Merigold: 40 years of McCarty Pottery by the University of Mississippi<\/p>\n

The Reconstruction of the Racist<\/i> by Ann Waldron<\/p>\n

The Modern Christmas in America<\/i> by William B. Waits<\/p>\n

Washington County: A Pictorial History Vol.1 1998 <\/i><\/p>\n

Washington County Historical Society Programs \u2013 1977, \u201878, \u201879, \u201880, \u201881, \u201882, \u201883, \u201884<\/i><\/p>\n

Count no\u2019 Count<\/i> by Ben Wasson\"wasson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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\u00a0Sartoris<\/i>. Also, Wasson helped Faulkner to place\u00a0The Sound and the Fury<\/i>\u00a0with a new York publisher. Their friendship lasted for more than thirty years as their paths crossed and recrossed in New York, Hollywood, and Mississippi.<\/h6>\n

Bird of Courage<\/i> by Wade S. Weiman, Jr <\/i><\/p>\n

East of the Slash <\/i>by Wade S. Weiman, Jr <\/i><\/p>\n

Shadows over Sunnyside<\/i> edited by Jeannie M. Whayne<\/p>\n

Savannah Brown by Erma Winfield<\/i><\/p>\n

Shelby Foote<\/i> by Helen White and Redding Sugg<\/p>\n

Diary of Amanda Worthington<\/p>\n

A Vanishing America<\/i> by Holt Richard Winston <\/i><\/p>\n

My Dining Generation<\/i> by Margaret B. Wynn<\/p>\n

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The Oxygen Man<\/i> by Steve Yarbrough\"yarbrough\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Veneer <\/i>by Steve Yarbrough<\/p>\n

Visible Spirits<\/i> by Steve Yarbrough<\/p>\n

Steve Yarbrough, b<\/b>orn in\u00a0Indianola, Mississippi, is a\u00a0novelist\u00a0and\u00a0short story\u00a0writer.\u00a0Writing largely within the Southern tradition, he draws his themes and characters from Southern history and more in ways that have been compared to\u00a0Flannery O\u2019Connor,\u00a0William Faulkner, and\u00a0Willie Morris.\u00a0His honors include the Mississippi Authors Award, the\u00a0California Book Award, and an award from the\u00a0Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. His novel,\u00a0Prisoners of War<\/i>, was a finalist for the 2005\u00a0PEN\/Faulkner\u00a0award.\u00a0He has also won the 2010 Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence.\u00a0\u00a0Yarbrough is currently a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at\u00a0Emerson College\u00a0in Boston.<\/h6>\n

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This page is just a small component of sub-series IV (Material Collections) of the McCormick collection. To view the collection in its entirety please visit Delta State University Archives and Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi or for more information please contact the Delta State Archives at 662.846.4780<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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