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.
Walt Disney
Conversations
A collection of interviews and profiles of the man who created Mickey Mouse, and produced such full-length animated classics as Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, and Pinocchio, along with countless short cartoons
W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia
Crossing the World Color Line
A selection of the best of Du Bois’s vision on the global battle for equality
Drilling Ahead
The Quest for Oil in the Deep South, 1945–2005
An overview of the petroleum industry in the Deep South since World War II
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
A nuanced, multifaceted view of one of contemporary literature’s greatest masters
Sidney Lumet
Interviews
A collection of over twenty interviews with the director of Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, and 12 Angry Men
Paddling the Pascagoula
By kayak and canoe, an appreciative adventure along America’s last unaltered river system
Early Escapades
Poems, sketches, profiles, and satires which clearly predict that Eudora Welty would become one of the South’s comic geniuses
Roman Polanski
Interviews
Collected interviews with the controversial European filmmaker of Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist
Threading the Generations
A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy
An unprecedented collection of fifty remarkable quilts from four generations of women artisans
Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
Christmas Stories from Georgia
Stories that share the Peach State’s unique holiday spirit
Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain
An innovative study of artists balancing tradition with creativity
Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque
A startling, revisionist assessment of a major southern writer’s work
John Woo
Interviews
The first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the Asian director of Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission Impossible II
Promises Kept
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
The first fifty years of the state’s only health sciences center
Miracles of the Spirit
Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin
A survey highlighting the many wonders of Wisconsin’s visual culture traditions
Salvation Run
A novel of small-town Minnesota where turbulent waters run beneath placid midwestern surfaces
Katherine Anne Porter
The Life of an Artist
A biography capturing the incomparable life and times of one of America’s finest writers
Nairne's Muskhogean Journals
The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River
Discovered in the British Library, the earliest known account in English of Muskhogean society, chronicling a remarkable diplomatic episode between European colonists and Native Americans
Guiltless Pleasures
A David Sterritt Film Reader
The latest and best from one of America’s most respected film critics
Alternative Comics
An Emerging Literature
An exploration of the potential for self-expression found in groundbreaking comics and graphic novels
Mississippi
A Documentary History
The unfolding story of the Magnolia State as told in this striking collection of its historical documents
Bike Week at Daytona Beach
Bad Boys and Fancy Toys
A twin-cam appreciation from twenty years of riding in one of America’s largest Harley gatherings
Barry Hannah
Postmodern Romantic
A thematic tour of the complete works from this exceptional southern writer
Mississippi Archaeology Q & A
An expert’s sourcebook of answers to the public’s frequently asked archaeology questions
Ellen S. Woodward
New Deal Advocate for Women
The biography of the first southern woman to hold a top-ranking post in a federal administration
A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi
The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi
An absorbing analysis of a 1936 case that exonerated three black sharecroppers tortured into confessing a murder they did not commit
Evelyn's Husband
A never-before published novel of white characters struggling to understand the true nature of manhood
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
Conversations with Isaac Asimov collects interviews with a man considered to be—along with Robert Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, and Arthur C. Clarke—a founder of modern science fiction.
Louisiana Cookery
A classic cookbook loaded with signature dishes from all of Louisiana’s rich cuisines