Nonfiction is celebrated in this second volume of a monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama written by authors from Mississippi, a state that has been called ...

Douglas L. Conner (1920-1998) was an African American physician in Starkville, Mississippi, and a civil rights activist. He is author (with John F. Marszalek) of A Black Physican's Story: Bringing Hope ...

James L. W. West III is editor of Conversations with William Styron, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Thomas Daniel Young was Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.

Truman Capote (1924–1984) once said, “The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk. . . ,” and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book. The topics are ...

Enjoy these literary conversations with some of the foremost authors writing in America today. Though writing is what they do best, talking about literature is an act that the Mississippi writers included ...

John Griffin Jones is a trial lawyer, author, and father. He is editor of Mississippi Writers Talking and Mississippi Writers Talking II and coeditor of Lines Were Drawn: Remembering Court-Ordered Integration ...

As this collection of interviews shows, Flannery O'Connor's fiction, though bound to a particular time and place, embodies and reveals universal ideas. O'Connor's curiosity about human nature and its ...