Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895-1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with ...

Frank L. Kersnowski is editor of Conversations with Robert Graves and coeditor (with Alice Hughes) of Conversations with Henry Miller, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
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Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s gives new focus to the wide field of humor is the first comprehensive anthology of American women's humorous writing. ...

One of so many talents could only be expected to talk superbly, too. Here in over two dozen interviews is the voice of Maya Angelou (1928–2014) telling with strength, warmth, honesty, and dignified ...

Nancy Walker (deceased) was a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is coeditor (with Zita Dresner) of Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s ...

Zita Dresner is professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia. She is coeditor (with Nancy Walker) of Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to ...

Conversations with John Steinbeck contains all the public interviews Steinbeck gave during his life. His life, it seems in retrospect, can be seen in three phases: his early life in his native state of ...

The Yazoo River unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in America, the culturally, strategically, and agriculturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi ...

Thomas Fensch is editor of Conversations with John Steinbeck and Conversations with James Thurber, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also author of four books about John Steinbeck, ...