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 ...

For more than two decades, Richard Wright was interviewed by the American and foreign press, first as the author of Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son (1940), and Black Boy (1945), next as a famous ...

When Arturo the Parrot, whose job it was to help greet people as they came into The Friendly Shoe Store, picked up and repeated a small boy's disgruntled comment, “Shoes are for the birds!,” it certainly ...

Beth Krush (1918-2009) was half of an American husband-and-wife team of illustrators (with Joe Krush; born May 18, 1918), who worked primarily on children's books. The Krushes may be best known for the ...

Michel Fabre is author of Richard Wright: Books and Writers and The World of Richard Wright, coauthor (with Edward Margolies) of The Several Lives of Chester Himes, and coeditor (with Robert E. Skinner) ...

Keneth Kinnamon is coeditor (with Michel Fabre) of Conversations with Richard Wright, published by University Press of Mississippi.