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.
Wild Bill Sullivan
King of the Hollow
The rollicking history of a dreaded real-life figure in the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods
Sullivan's Hollow
Anecdotes and lore about a notorious zone in the Mississippi Piney Woods
The Mississippi Cookbook
A collection of over one thousand of Mississippi’s most popular recipes