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.
Myself and the World
A Biography of William Faulkner
A concise, readable biography of the Nobel laureate who defined southern literature
Island at War
Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media
City of Remembering
A History of Genealogy in New Orleans
A look at the passionate pursuits intersecting family and public histories
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
The marvelous recovery of neglected Black artists and their awesome body of comics creativity
Bars, Blues, and Booze
Stories from the Drink House
True accounts from musicians, bar owners, and regulars at the crossroads of good times and despair
So the Heffners Left McComb
The shocking tale of a white Mississippi family ostracized and devastated after breaking bread with civil rights workers
Things like the Truth
Out of My Later Years
A vibrant, passionate engagement with the transcendent joys of family and aging
My Triumph over Prejudice
A Memoir
How a black Mississippian navigated a tumultuous childhood, married a white civil rights worker, and rallied to transform her life
Projections of Passing
Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960
How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated, and sometimes alleviated American fears
The Amazing Crawfish Boat
The true story of how a network of Cajun and German farmers and fabricators invented a traditional amphibious boat
Woody Allen
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five year span of Woody Allen’s career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as well as his most critically acclaimed works
Called to Heal the Brokenhearted
Stories from Kairos Prison Ministry International
How a ministry in the largest prison in Louisiana and across the country transforms lives
Van Johnson
MGM's Golden Boy
The only full-length biography of this immensely popular screen star of the 1940s and 1950s
Sitting Pretty
The Life and Times of Clifton Webb
The autobiography of one of the top moneymakers in the history of Twentieth Century-Fox