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 Ursula K. Le Guin
Collected interviews with the renowned science fiction and fantasy writer known for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence of novels and stories
Harvey Pekar
Conversations
Collected interviews with the creator of American Splendor, the longest-running autobiographical comic book series produced in America
Delta Deep Down
Photographs that capture the land, people, and ever-present spirits of the Mississippi Delta
American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
George Ohr, Dusti Bonge, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthe
A celebration of four Mississippi artists and their nationally renowned work
On the Lam
Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America
From the author of the novel Dodgers, an exploration of how the fugitive criminal took the spotlight in American literature, film, and media news
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright
The Poetics and Politics of Modernism
The Stein-Wright connection and its meaning for American literature and literary history
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
How a mountain community and music harmonize in an old-time fiddle player from West Virginia
Faulkner and Idealism
Perspectives from Paris
Nine essays from top international scholars delivered at the first Colloquium Internationale at the University of Paris
Bloody Mary in the Mirror
Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics
Seven ways in which psychoanalysis illuminates folklore
Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War
A paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War and the literature it produced
Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire
How a revolutionary cartoonist opened the funnies to political commentary and biting satire
Performing the Pilgrims
A Study of Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth Plantation
An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance
Claudette Colbert
She Walked in Beauty
A biography of the award–winning and versatile star of screen, stage, and television
Strawberry Plains Audubon Center
Four Centuries of a Mississippi Landscape
The multigenerational history of land that became one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries in the United States
Ousmane Sembène
Interviews
Collected interviews with the African filmmaker who directed Black Girl,Mandabi, Xala, Ceddo, Faat Kine, and Moolaade
Toni Morrison
Conversations
Thirty years of interviews with the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and other novels
Martha Skelton
Master Quilter of Mississippi
An illustrated biography of one of Mississippi’s most beloved artisans and teachers
Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
Carole Landis
A Most Beautiful Girl
The tragically brief life of the actress who became every serviceman’s pin-up during WWII
Sam Peckinpah
Interviews
Collected interviews with the filmmaker who directed the award-winning Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and The Getaway
Growing Up in Mississippi
An anthology describing the unique experience of childhood in the South’s most storied state
Mayor Crump Don't Like It
Machine Politics in Memphis
A biography of the southern politician who forged the first biracial Democratic coalition and then shattered it with his loyalty to segregation’s status quo
Ain't That a Knee-Slapper
Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
A hee-hawing history of comedic performers from the golden age of radio through The Dukes of Hazzard
What Moves at the Margin
Selected Nonfiction
Thirty years of the Nobel Laureate’s reflections on life, writing, and other writers
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors
A Young Reader's History
The full story of Louisiana’s French-speaking Cajun people written in a format comprehensible to junior high and high school students; also an appealing read for adults seeking a concise, one-volume exploration of this fascinating group of people
Whitewashing America
Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination
A study of how material goods and antebellum consumption defined whiteness
The Big Ballad Jamboree
A southern literary master’s captivating novel about the rise of a Nashville-bound singer as “hillbilly” evolves into “country”
A Web of Relationship
Women in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman
Insights into a rediscovered author’s revealing portraits of New England women
Southern Sun
A Plant Selection Guide
An expert’s advice on making the most of the many extremes in southern gardens
Southern Shade
A Plant Selection Guide
An expert’s advice on making the most of the many extremes in southern gardens