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.
Dick Waterman
A Life in Blues
A biography of the renowned manager of Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Buddy Guy, who worked with a host of other iconic blues artists
Conversations with Colson Whitehead
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Intuitionist
Time of My Life
A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
An insider’s riff on his jazz journey across oceans to the city that invented the music
Analysis of Jazz
A Comprehensive Approach
A sweeping study of the nature of jazz
The Comics of Rutu Modan
War, Love, and Secrets
The first in-depth study of acclaimed work by a pioneer of Israeli comics
Hold On with a Bulldog Grip
A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant
A concise chronicle of one of the most accomplished figures in American history
Photographs
In hardback again for the first time in thirty years, the definitive book of photographs by the Pulitzer Prize winner, including a new foreword by Natasha Trethewey and sixteen new photographs
Cham
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862
The first modern study of the inexhaustibly humorous, masterful French creator
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel
Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century
A thoughtful examination of the clashes among nostalgia, evangelism, and marketing
The Original Blues
The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
An invaluable musical history documenting the advent of the blues in black vaudeville
Blasian Invasion
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
An exposition of a dynamic, multiracial-racial identity
The Canadian Alternative
Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
A broad survey of the inspirations of comics creation in Canada
Ben Katchor
Conversations
Career-spanning interviews with the creator of the contemporary American comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and other works
The Artistry of Neil Gaiman
Finding Light in the Shadows
An extensive, career-spanning volume on the works of Neil Gaiman