Creative nonfiction

Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia

After All, It's Only a Game

American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz

American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song

Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives

Approaching the Magic Hour: Memories of Walter Anderson

Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest

Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest

The Circle of Guilt

Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer

Coming to Term: A Father's Story of Birth, Loss, and Survival

Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an unlikely couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and transformed children's Literature

Dancing with My Father

A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

Down on the Batture

Early Escapades

Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne

Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist

Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story

From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall

German Boy: A Refugee's Story

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir

The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

Hurricane Katrina: The Mississippi Story

I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen

The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure

The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner

Losing Malcolm: A Mother's Journey Through Grief

Me: A Book of Remembrance

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. II: Non-fiction

My Life with Charlie Brown

My Mississippi

New York Voices: Fourteen Portraits

Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism

No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South

Now Is the Time

On Island Time: Kayaking the Caribbean

Outside the Southern Myth

Paddling the Pascagoula

The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi

Pilgrimage from Darkness: Nuremberg to Jerusalem

Return to Dresden

Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story

Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America

A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina

Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays

Soldier's Son

Some Notes on River Country

Sundays Down South: A Pastor's Stories

Unsung Valor: A GI's Story of World War II

Walking on Air: The Aerial Adventures of Phoebe Omlie

What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Why I Left America and Other Essays

Witnessing

The Writing Life

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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. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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