Collected essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts, Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin, Shirley Ann Grau, Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Berry Morgan, Mary Lee ...

With essays by Harold K. Steen, John H. Napier III, Terry G. Jordan, Grady McWhiney, Thomas D. Clark, Nollie W. Hickman, James C. Downey, W. Kenneth Holditch, Thomas L. McHaney, William F. Winter, Warren ...

Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler ...

Alan Huffman is a freelance journalist and author of several nonfiction books including Lines Were Drawn: Rembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School, Mississippi in Africa: The Saga ...

Dick Spottswood is a musicologist, historian, and the producer and online host of The Dick Spottswood Show, aka the Obsolete Music Hour.

Hal Ashby (1929–1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are ...

Davis W. Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. He is author of Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer; coauthor of Emmett Till and the ...

Matthew A. Grindy is a doctoral candidate of communication at Florida State University.

Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the ...