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.
Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa
Over two decades of interviews with the first African American male author to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
The Mechanical Feature
100 Years of Engineering at Mississippi State University
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
The definitive source for the movie fan magazine and how it espoused hoopla and fashioned stardom
Errol Morris
Interviews
Interviews with the creator of The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control; The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure
James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists
A story of an African American minister who broke from the Seventh-day Adventist church during the Harlem Renaissance
Cross the Water Blues
African American Music in Europe
Essays analyzing the impact of African American music and its European reverberations
Black Writers, White Publishers
Marketplace Politics in Twentieth- Century African American Literature
A thoughtful examination of rough drafts and marketing pressures that reveal conflicts and compromises between five great authors and their publishers
Reading Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!
For teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner’s masterpieces
Making a Way out of No Way
African American Women and the Second Great Migration
Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class
Voice of a Native Son
The Poetics of Richard Wright
Richard Wright's works most often have been judged by his own ideological polemics, seldom by the terms of art. This, however, is a study of Richard Wright's poetics, rich in a black aesthetic force that was the elemental voice in his writings
The Years of Our Friendship
Robert Lowell and Allen Tate
This well-informed study examines the complexly faceted and often troubled friendship of two poets united by the bonds of imagination and mutual needs.
The Lytle-Tate Letters
The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate
A remarkable collection of letters covering nearly four decades of correspondence between two of the South’s foremost literary figures
Music and History
Bridging the Disciplines
An anthology that reinforces the value of harmony between two specialties of study
Models of Misrepresentation
On the Fiction of E.L. Doctorow
Valuable philosophical insights into Doctorow's novels as paragons of modernist narrative technique
Letters from Forest Place
A Plantation Family's Correspondence, 1846-1881
The revelation in their letters of a Mississippi plantation family’s prosperity and decline before, during, and after the Civil War
Feminist Alternatives
Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women
This analytical survey of contemporary fiction is a study of more than twenty-five novels written by women during a twenty-year period of rapid socio-cultural change resulting from the philosophy and goals of the contemporary women's movement
FDR's Utopian
Arthur Morgan of the TVA
The first book to explore the career of FDR’s Utopian
Fabulous Provinces
A Memoir
“Fabulous Provinces is written easily, and the story it tells—the transformation of a rural Mississippi boy into a scholar—is in many ways the story of the twentieth-century South.”
Drawing a Circle in the Square
Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park
A scholarly spotlight focused on the performers who enliven the sidewalks of New York