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 William Gibson
Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History
Expressions of Place
The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape
Contemporary artists revealing the state’s urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields
Madeline Kahn
Being the Music, A Life
The first biography of the great comedic actress and star of stage and screen
Bertrand Tavernier
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director who is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave
Lucky Dogs
From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond
An insider's account of the iconic hotdog cart business and its role in the French Quarter and the world
The Mississippi Secession Convention
Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865
The first examination of the entire convention and the men who deliberated there
She Could Be Chaplin!
The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell
The first book-length appreciation of one of the most important comediennes of the silent film era
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice
Susan Sontag
The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated
An intimate portrait of the famed writer, director, and activist
Pelican Road
A Novel
The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad
Outsider Art
Visionary Worlds and Trauma
An unparalleled exploration of the power of art and the impulse of creation
Mississippians in the Great War
Selected Letters
A fascinating collection of correspondence from soldiers, nurses, and relief workers during World War I
Medievalist Comics and the American Century
Why so many American comics fans avidly follow medieval heroes
Inventing George Whitefield
Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
A thorough reckoning of the evolving ideas and legacy of a founding force in American evangelism
Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest
Fifty Pieces from the Road
A compilation from the incomparable career of one of the original “Boys on the Bus”
A Thousand Cuts
The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
The colorful, compulsive, secretive history of famous and infamous film fiends
The Land of Rowan Oak
An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World
An extraordinary photographic documentary of the wild and cultivated plants and landscape of Faulkner’s inspirational writing sanctuary
Win the Race or Die Trying
Uncle Earl's Last Hurrah
How one of the last Louisiana Longs escaped a mental institution and died after winning election to Congress
Big Jim Eastland
The Godfather of Mississippi
The biography of a powerful Mississippi senator rife with contradictions
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences
Delta Rainbow
The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson
The story of a plantation heiress who threw aside convention, joined the Marines, and fought for civil rights
The Dixie Limited
Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence
A dazzling collection of writers worldwide on the massive authority of the Nobel laureate
Faulkner and Film
A collection exploring the extensive connections between the Nobel laureate’s work and cinema
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
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Interviews
Interviews with the Polish filmmaker who garnered international acclaim (including an Oscar nomination) for his Three Colors trilogy of films and was proclaimed one of Europe’s most important filmmakers by many critics
