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.
Assembling Art
The Machine and the American Avant-Garde
An examination of early modernism’s revolutionary alliance with the machine
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults
Legends We Live
How tales we tell impact our day-to-day lives
Jazz Planet
The first book to detail the spread and evolution of jazz into cultures around the world
In the Southern Wild
In full color, homage to the thriving world of the South’s wetlands
Unsung Valor
A GI's Story of World War II
Thirty riveting months in the life of a common infantryman, one among the “citizen soldiers” who took the Allies to victory
Fritz Lang
Interviews
A collection of conversations about the filmmaker whose life and work spanned six decades of film history
TVA Photography
Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley
From official TVA files, documentary images of the New Deal and its legacy
The French Quarter of New Orleans
Photographs and narrative that revive the charming spirit of old New Orleans
On William Faulkner
A memorable literary record that marks the encounter of two great American writers
Water Dreams
A first novel in which a drowned man’s death transforms the life of a man who tried to save him
Steamboats and the Cotton Economy
River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
A history of steamboating along the waterways of one of the most fertile farmlands in America showing the importance of the steamboat industry to the economy of the Deep South
Global Pop, Local Language
An anthology exploring the politics of language choice in world beat and pop music
Bad Boy of Gospel Music
The Calvin Newton Story
The prodigal-son biography of a gospel music legend with the voice of an angel and a hell-bent drive toward self-destruction
Lars von Trier
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since the days of his great mentor in spirit Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sonny Montgomery
The Veteran's Champion
The autobiography of the Mississippi Congressman who spearheaded the drive for the revamped G.I. Bill
Appalachian Lives
Photographs that trace time across the faces and lives of Appalachian families
Some Notes on River Country
In prose and photography, Welty’s meditation on her inspiring encounter with an enduring landscape
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco
Readings in Louisiana Culture
Canoeing Louisiana
The complete guidebook for paddling the rivers, streams, swamps, and lakes of the Sportsman’s Paradise
Alfred Hitchcock
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the director who has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy
Malinche's Children
A novel in stories chronicling the rise of a Chicano barrio in California
Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South
The southerner’s guidebook to selecting, growing, and utilizing superior landscape flowers
The Cajuns
Americanization of a People
A history of how Cajun culture coped with forces that threatened its uniqueness
Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House
The story of a black man’s unprecedented rise to power and political prominence in the formerly segregationist state of Mississippi
Michael Powell
Interviews
This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world