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.
Dunlap
The first full-length book heralding this renowned artist’s achievements
Ghost Hunters of the South
From across Dixie, profiles of irrepressible investigators of the paranormal
Andrei Tarkovsky
Interviews
A collection of interviews with the Russian filmmaker who directed Andrei Roublev, Solaris, and The Mirror
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
A house-rocking blues life story of the late Mississippi-born front man of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
Odd-Egg Editor
Remembering the sting of male discrimination she repeatedly endured during her career as a newspaper-woman, the author wistfully recalls the hurt of being overlooked, snubbed, and ribbed by her male colleagues
Coming to Colorado
A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer
The inspiring sequel to German Boy: A Refugee’s Story
20 over 40
Stories about the unique perils and tensions of middle age
The Coen Brothers
Interviews
Collected interviews with the quirky and distinctive writer/director team of such films as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and Barton Fink
Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
The first biography of the influential Antiguan journalist and follower of C. L. R. James
The New Blue Music
Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999
A study that finds African influences of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form in the top 25 songs from each decade of R&B
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book
Unmasking the Myth of Modernity
The first full-length critical study of the genius who created Duckburg and Uncle Scrooge
Shelby Foote
A Writer's Life
A biography that plumbs the ambiguous life of the gentlemanly novelist and historian
Richard Wright's Travel Writings
New Reflections
From multinational perspectives, a study of Wright’s innovative travel literature and its politics of postcolonialism
Reading Faulkner
Collected Stories
For readers and critics, a guide to the Nobel Laureate’s short stories
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka
Freedom and Complexity
Essays that examine the aesthetics and the radical politics of one of Africa’s greatest writers
La Salle and His Legacy
Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley
In this collection of essays that marked the tricentennial of La Salle’s expedition, thirteen scholars assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast
Faulkner and Religion
The papers published here conclude that the key to religious meaning in Faulkner may be that his texts focus not so much on God but on a human aspiration of the divine
Booker T. Washington in Perspective
Essays of Louis R. Harlan
An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan’s prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan’s essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader
Illustrations of Epic and Voyage
An intriguing sample of Walter Anderson’s visions inspired by literature’s great stories
Mouse Tracks
The Story of Walt Disney Records
An appreciative assessment of a wondrous recording studio and all fifty years of its magical output
Gettysburg
Sentinels of Stone
Photographs and text that capture the battles, landscapes, history, and memories of the Civil War
Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865
A revealing juxtaposition of the literatures of Manifest Destiny and a dream deferred
Woody Allen
Interviews
Interviews with the well-known director of Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, and the Oscar-winning Annie Hall
The Reverend
An intimate portrait of a fiery spiritual leader and his African American congregations
What Gets Into Us
Interconnected stories that reveal the fictional town of Fayton, North Carolina
Understanding Herpes
Revised Second Edition
A concise overview of advances and resources
New York Voices
Fourteen Portraits
Profiles of the artists, music makers, and movers and shakers who created New York City’s vibrant cultural landscape
American Singers
Twenty-seven Portraits in Song
A complete collection of profiles on singers that Balliett wrote for the New Yorker
American Musicians II
Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz
All of the jazz profiles Whitney Balliett wrote for the New Yorker
Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico
A Field Guide
The ideal guidebook for spotting and identifying forty-two sharks and twenty-five skates and rays of the Gulf of Mexico
Liv Ullmann
Interviews
Interviews with the actress of such Ingmar Bergman classics as Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Cries and Whispers and the director of such fine films as Sofie, Private Confessions, Kristin Lavransdatter, and Faithless
Howard Hawks
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo
Louisiana Voyages
The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole
Revelations of a Gilded Age woman writing from the South’s most rugged and exotic climes
Lost Plantation
The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks
The story of a Louisiana mansion, a planter’s empire, and a preservation battle lost to bulldozers
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
For those looking to comprehend and to prevent child sexual abuse, a succinct guidebook of advice and resources
Conversations with August Wilson
Just Above the Water
Florida Folk Art
An extensive study of the Sunshine State’s folk art legacy
Civil Rights Childhood
A memoir that details the realities of black life before and during the Civil Rights Movement in the segregated South
Shelby Foote
Novelist and Historian
A critical appreciation of the author extolled for both his fiction and his acclaimed three-volume history, The Civil War
Robbing The Mother
Women in Faulkner
A close look at William Faulkner’s strange ambivalence toward maternal figures in his novels
Race and Sport
The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field
An examination of the connection between race and sport in America
Huey P. Newton
The Radical Theorist
A new consideration of the Black Panther’s leadership, political thought, and intellectual development
Count No 'Count
Flashbacks to Faulkner
A touching memoir of Faulkner, written by his first literary agent and one of his closest friends
Across the Creek
Faulkner Family Stories
Early glimpses and letters that reveal William Faulkner in a family setting