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, ...

This easy-to-understand guide through a maze of research possibilities is for any genealogist who has Mississippi ancestry.

It identifies the many official state records, incorporated community records, ...

Richard Reynolds teaches at Central Saint Martins in London, where he is Course Leader of the MA Applied Imagination course and Joint Head of Academic Support for the college. He is also a former publisher ...

Pearl Amelia McHaney is Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature Emerita at Georgia State University and a recipient of the Eudora Welty Society Phoenix Award for outstanding achievement in ...