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Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival 2020

Like everyone else, UPM has been monitoring COVID-19. We're sad that this year's Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival was cancelled, and we miss all of you! We hope to see you soon, but if you have a proposal ready to go then we want to see it. Please review our staff listing and send an email to the acquiring editor best suited for your project. Be sure to follow our submission guidelines and remember that we are working from home and can only accept digital submissions.            https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Publish-With-Us

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Something Inside So Strong

Something Inside So Strong

By Mildred Pitts Walter
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

In 1922, Mildred Pitts Walter was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, to a log cutter and a midwife/beautician. She became the first member of her family to go to college, graduating in 1940. Walter moved to ...

Eleanor Cameron

Eleanor Cameron

By Paul V. Allen
Foreword by Gregory Maguire
Categories: Literature

Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent ...

Conversations with Maurice Sendak

Conversations with Maurice Sendak

Edited by Peter C. Kunze
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children’s book writer and illustrator, he did not limit ...

Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle

Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle

Edited by Jackie C. Horne
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Madeleine L’Engle is the first collection of interviews with the beloved children’s book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award–winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However, ...

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

By Viola Fontenot
Foreword by Chere Dastugue Coen
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent ...

Brother to a Dragonfly

Brother to a Dragonfly

By Will D. Campbell
Foreword by Jimmy Carter & John Lewis
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Banner Books

In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell (1924–2013) writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in ...

Teacher

Teacher

By Michael Copperman
Categories: Biography And Memoir

When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naïve, ...

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Mississippi

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust

The perfect book ...

To Write in the Light of Freedom

To Write in the Light of Freedom

Edited by William Sturkey & Jon N. Hale
Categories: History
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most ...

Myself and the World

Myself and the World

By Robert W. Hamblin
Categories: Biography And Memoir

William Faulkner (1897–1962) once said of his novels and stories, “I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world. ” This biography provides an overview of the life and ...