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.
Robert Williams
Conversations
Interviews with the founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and coproducer of ZAP Comix who is known for his underground comix cartoons and oil paintings
M. Night Shyamalan
Interviews
Two decades of interviews with the visionary filmmaker of such successful films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable
Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
One writer’s odyssey through Louisiana folklore and history as he searches for the true meaning of home
A Seat at the Table
Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture
A sounding of a profound, lasting imprint on intellectual history
Love Letter from Pig
My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer
An inspiring, deeply personal story about a tumultuous period in civil rights history
This Light of Ours
Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the struggle
The Poacher's Nightmare
Stories of an Undercover Game Warden
The thrilling memoir of a covert wildlife agent
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker
A riveting true story of a Texas murder that captivated a nation and the evangelical voices who fought for Karla Faye Tucker’s clemency
Terror and Truth
Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement
The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry