The Internet Guide to Mississippi Writers

Presented by the Department of English at the University of Mississippi

Quick find: This Web Site     The Entire Web -- Articles Now Available -- COMPLETE LIST OF WRITERS Alexander, Margaret Walker (1915-1998) Ambrose, Stephen E. (1936-2002) Armistead, John (1941- ) Autry, James A. (1933- ) Bahr, Howard (1946- ) Bailey, Ben E. (1932- ) Baldwin, Joseph Glover (1815-1864) Barr, Nevada (1952- ) Barthelme, Frederick (1943- ) Barthelme, Steve (1947- ) Bass, Rick (1958- ) Berry, D. C. (1942- ) Black, Patti Carr (1934- ) Bonner, Katherine Sherwood (1849-1883) Bosco, Joseph (1948- ) Brown, Larry (1951- ) Buffett, Jimmy (1946- ) Burnham, Carl Campbell, Will D. (1924-2013) Capers, Charlotte (1913-1996) Carsley, Anne (1935- ) Claiborne, J. F. H. (1807-1884) Clower, Jerry (1926-1998) Cobb, Joseph Beckham (1819-1858) Cohen, Edward (1948- ) Creevy, Patrick (1947- ) Crews, John (1926- ) Davis, David (1948- ) Davis, Reuben (1813-1890) Deal, Borden (1922-1985) Denman, Margaret-Love (1940- ) Dixon, Louisa (1950- ) Dorsey, L. C. (1938- ) Douglas, Ellen (1921-2012) Ensrud, Barbara (1939- ) Evers, Medgar (1925-1963) Evers-Williams, Myrlie (1933- ) Falkner, Murry C. (1899-1975) Falkner, William Clark (1826-1889) Faulkner, Jimmy (1923- ) Faulkner, John (1901-1963) Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Feild, Claire T. (1946- ) Foote, Shelby (1916-2005) Ford, Richard (1944- ) Fraiser, Jim (1954- ) Franklin, Malcolm (1923-1977) Galef, David (1959- ) Gilchrist, Ellen (1935- ) Grayson, Walt Grisham, John (1955- ) Guyton, David Edgar (1880-1964) Haines, Carolyn (1953- ) Hall, Martha Lacy (1923- ) Hamblin, Robert W. (1938- ) Hannah, Barry (1942-2010) Harris, Charlaine (1951- ) Harris, Thomas (1940- ) Henley, Beth (1952- ) Henson, Jim (1936-1990) Higginbotham, Jay (1937- ) Higginbotham, Sylvia (?- ) Hoar, Jere (1929- ) Iles, Greg (?- ) Johnson, Shirley Jean Johnston, Michael Keyes, J. Gregory (?- ) Kolin, Philip C. Ladner, Joyce A. (1943- ) Lamar, L. Q. C. (1825-1893) Lee, Muna (1895-1965) Lewis, Henry Clay (1825-1850) Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin (1790-1870) Marszalek, John F. (1939- ) McGaughey, Neil (1951-1999) McNutt, Alexander G. (1802?-1848) Meredith, James (1933- ) Mitchell, Margaree King (1953- ) Moody, Anne (1940- ) Morris, Willie (1934-1999) Nordan, Lewis (1939-2012) Norris, Gloria (1937- ) Peavy, Linda (1943- ) Percy, Walker (1916-1990) Percy, William Alexander (1885-1942) Polk, Noel (1943- ) Pratt, Walter F. (1946- ) Raspberry, William (1935-2012) Riley, Shannon (1941- ) Ruffin, Paul (1941- ) Russell, Irwin (1853-1879) Schueler, Don G. (1929- ) Seay, James (1939- ) Smith, Patrick D. (1927- ) Stone, John (1936- ) Stuart, Marty (1958- ) Sullivan, Clayton (1930- ) Sullivan, Otha Richard (1941- ) Tartt, Donna (1963- ) Taulbert, Clifton L. (1945- ) Taylor, Mildred D. (1943- ) Thatcher, George (1922- ) Thompson, Phillip (1962- ) Trippett, Frank (1926-1998) Von Kanel, Danny (1955- ) Warfield, Catherine Ann (1816-1877) Watson, Brad (?- ) Wells, Lawrence (1941- ) Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862-1931) Welty, Eudora (1909-2001) Williams, Joan (1928-2004) Williams, John A. (1925- ) Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) Wilson, Charles (1939- ) Wilson, Charles Reagan (1948- ) Wright, Richard (1908-1960) Young, Stark (1881-1963) Ziglar, Zig (?- ) Zu-Bolton, Ahmos, II (1935-2005)

Mississippi Writer Headlines: More news Civil rights pioneer Will D. Campbell dies at 88. (4 June 2013) Novelist Ellen Douglas dies at 91. (7 November 2012) Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Raspberry dies at 76. (17 July 2012) Novelist Lewis Nordan dies at age 72. (13 April 2012)     Announcements, Conferences, Contests, & Calls for Papers: The 40th Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, on the theme “Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas,” will take place at the University of Mississippi in Oxford July 21-25, 2013. For more information, visit the official conference website: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner/. The 21st Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival, sponsored by Coahoma Community College, will take place in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on October 4-5, 2013. For more information, visit the festival web site: www.coahomacc.edu/twilliams.     Mississippi Writer News (from Google News):   Click here for more headlines about the Mississippi literary scene. Recently added articles: Philip C. Kolin, Jimmy Buffett, Joan Williams, Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, Joseph Bosco, Danny Von Kanel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, William Clark Falkner

The Mississippi Writers Page is a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have called the Magnolia state home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources (including literary criticism) are among the features available here. It is an ongoing project.

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A few Mississippi writers featured here:

John Grisham … Nevada Barr … Richard Ford … Larry Brown … Margaret Walker Alexander … William Faulkner … Jerry Clower … Richard Wright … Tennessee Williams … Donna Tartt … Eudora Welty … Brad Watson … Beth Henley … Jimmy Buffett … Ellen Douglas … Walker Percy … Lewis Nordan … Frederick Barthelme … Shelby Foote … Greg Iles … Thomas Harris … Augustus Baldwin Longstreet … Willie Morris … Anne Moody … Elizabeth Spencer … Barry Hannah … Angela Jackson … William Attaway … Rick Bass … and many more