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.
A Serigamy of Stories
Appealing reminiscences of small-town life by one of the South’s most enchanting oral storytellers
Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine
A study of how birthing methods have evolved and how key practices have returned
Africa and the Blues
A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues
The WPA Guides
Mapping America
An argument for how the WPA Guides contrived and shaped America’s conception of itself in the 1930s and ’40s
Secrets of a New Orleans Chef
Recipes from Tom Cowman's Cookbook
Culinary delights from the kitchen of a famed Crescent City chef
A Spiral Way
How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography
The way Edison’s talking machine brought the study of ethnic cultures into the modern era
Delta Land
In its stark, black-and-white beauty, a haunting portrait of the vast Mississippi Delta landscape
Cajun and Creole Music Makers
Musiciens cadiens et creoles
In English and French, an up-close encounter with musicians from South Louisiana
Talking with Michener
The first full-length book of in-depth interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tales of the South Pacific and many other works
Shenandoah Valley Folklife
The first comprehensive study of the valley’s rich folklife
George Lucas
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director known as the most identifiable and popular filmmaker in the history of the medium
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
Marxism for Our Times
C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization
The writings of a Marxist at work
The Southern Writers Quiz Book
In Q & A’s what everybody likes about the South—the writers
John Wilkes Booth
A Sister's Memoir
A sister’s affectionate look into the complex mind and character of her brother, the man who killed Lincoln
John Sayles
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director/writer/actor who was nominated for both an Academy Award for script writing and a National Book Award
Conversations with William Faulkner
Collected interivews with the Nobel Prize-winning author who many believe to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
To Make a New Race
Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution
A study of how Black people were excluded from the Revolutionary patriots’ goals for American liberation
Faulkner and the Natural World
Scholarly probings that find the heart of nature in the Nobel Prize author’s works
Unveiling Kate Chopin
A vivid biography of the author of The Awakening marking the 100th anniversary of its publication
The Pursuit of a Dream
The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man’s former plantation
Jane Campion
Interviews
Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady
Adopting Alyosha
A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia
Through bureaucracies and bottlenecks, a bachelor’s quest that ends in a Moscow orphanage
Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy
A revised edition of a volume praised as the best handbook for an understanding of McCarthy’s great works
Martin Scorsese
Interviews
Collected interviews with the man who has been called the greatest living American film director
Festive Revolutions
The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe
The history and lineage of a Bay Area performance troupe that blends politics and festivity
The Cry Was Unity
Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936
The first book to study the African American and Communist relationship in its national and international contexts