This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story ...

Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women—and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes ...

Dan Callahan is author of Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912–1960; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1960 to Today; The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock ...

Thabiti Lewis is professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver. He is author of Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America, and his work has been published in AmeriQuest Journal ...

Christopher Wilkinson is professor of music history at West Virginia University. He is author of Jazz on the Road: Don Albert's Musical Life. His journal articles have appeared in American Music, Black ...

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous “Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction” persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narratives ...

Susan E. Kirtley is professor of English, director of composition, and director of comics studies at Portland State University. She is winner of the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Educational/Academic Work ...

Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred ...

Rychetta Watkins is assistant professor of English at Rhodes College. Her work has appeared in M/MLA Journal, MELUS, and the Southern Quarterly.

Moist-soil wetlands are seasonally flooded areas that produce early-succession plant communities of grasses, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. Moist-soil wetland plants provide food and cover for a ...