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.
On The Gulf
A collection of short stories, all set on the Gulf Coast, by a master of the form
Germans and African Americans
Two Centuries of Exchange
A wide-ranging look at the interplay between one European people and African Americans
Queen of the Virgins
Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
A comprehensive analysis of four centuries of protest, pride, and pomp in the beauty contests of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Conversations with Willie Morris
Interviews with the author of My Dog Skip and North Toward Home
Conversations with Joseph Heller
A selection of the most significant, informative, and interesting interviews with one of America’s foremost novelists
The Starday Story
The House That Country Music Built
The full story of one of country music’s most influential record labels
Conversations with Paul Auster
Interviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie
Jujitsu for Christ
A rowdy novel of a Jackson preacher and martial arts devotee who finds himself in the heat of Mississippi’s nadir
Culture after the Hurricanes
Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast
Essays examining the fraught negotiations between official agencies and local communities in the aftermath of disasters
Stories of Oprah
The Oprahfication of American Culture
Essays probing the creative output and widespread influence of a media titan
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party
Faulkner and Gender
A study of gender in the works of the Nobel Prize author. Thirteen original papers from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held in 1994 at the University of Mississippi
Conversations with John Cheever
Interviews with the author of The Wapshot Scandel and Bullet Park
Conversations with Grace Paley
Interviews with the author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Later the Same Day, and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Conversations with William H. Gass
Interviews with the author of Omensetter’s Luck and The Tunnel
Abraham Polonsky
Interviews
Interviews with the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Body and Soul and the director of Force of Evil and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement
Clint Eastwood
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Interviews with the Oscar-winning director of Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby