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Biography Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song And One Was a Priest: The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray Jr. Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry Autobiography of a Female Slave Backseat Quarterback Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Barthé: A Life in Sculpture Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an unlikely couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and transformed children's Literature Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas Dancing with My Father A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty Death in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess Earl Hooker, Blues Master Elvis and Gladys The Enchanted Quest of Dana and Ginger Lamb Escape from Archangel: An American Merchant Seaman at War Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer Faulkner: A Biography Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir Hank Williams, So Lonesome Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill Ladies of Soul Larry Brown: A Writer's Life The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector The Life of Dick Haymes: No More Little White Lies Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism On William Faulkner On William Hollingsworth, Jr. The Other Carl Sandburg Poe Prophet Singer The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame The Rise of David Duke Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter Searching for John Ford Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicles of a Modern Woman The Several Lives of Chester Himes Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb Soldier's Son Sonny Montgomery: The Veteran's Champion Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland Southern Belle Stackhouse Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower Tennessee Williams and the South Tennessee Williams and the South That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman Thomas Jefferson on Wine Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story Transformed: A White Mississippi Pastor's Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Walking on Air: The Aerial Adventures of Phoebe Omlie Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928 We End in Joy: Memoirs of a First Daughter We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire Welty: A Life in Literature Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life The World of Richard Wright Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. 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