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writers. For information about books by Mississippi writers published since
1996, see Book News.
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Writer News: 2006
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Writer News: 2005
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2005 |
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Grishams
donate $5M for rebuilding after hurricane damage (September
4, 2005) |
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2005 |
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| July
2005 |
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| June
2005 |
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Admission
fee to be charged at William Faulkner’s
house (June
29, 2005) |
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Novelist,
historian Shelby Foote dies at 88 (June
28, 2005) |
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Oprah’s
Book Club to feature ‘A Summer of Faulkner’ (June 3,
2005) |
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| May
2005 |
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Hints
of William Faulkner’s values revealed in author’s Bible
(May 3, 2005) |
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William
Faulkner’s Bible returned to Rowan Oak during dedication ceremony
(May 1, 2005) |
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| April
2005 |
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Restored
Rowan Oak, home of William Faulkner, to be dedicated May 1 (April
25, 2005) |
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| March
2005 |
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12th
Oxford Book Conference honors Flannery O’Connor (March 22,
2005) |
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Poet
Ahmos Zu-Bolton dies at 69 (March 18, 2005) |
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2005 |
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2005 |
Writer News: 2004
| November
2004 |
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Author
Larry Brown dies at 53 (November
25, 2004) |
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| October
2004 |
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Poet
Ann Fisher-Wirth awarded state arts commission grant (October
14, 2004) |
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| September
2004 |
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Faulkner
birthday celebration Sept. 25 to feature reading of ‘Absalom,
Absalom’ (September
14, 2004) |
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| August
2004 |
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| July
2004 |
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English
professor Ann Fisher-Wirth wins national poetry award (July
6, 2004) |
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Rowan
Oak, William Faulkner home, reopens after renovation (July
25, 2004) |
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Faulkner
lives on through play, future movie (July 28, 2004) |
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Call
for Papers: ‘Faulkner’s Inheritance’: 32nd Annual Faulkner
& Yoknapatawpha Conference, July 24-28, 2005. (Deadline:
15 Jan. 2005) |
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Call
for Readers: The Marathon Reading of William Faulkner’s Absalom,
Absalom!, September 25, 2004, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi |
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| June
2004 |
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Marty
Stuart arrested, charged with DUI (June
24, 2004) |
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| May
2004 |
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Oxford
American signs deal with Univ. of Central Arkansas (May
26, 2004) |
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| April
2004 |
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Murry
C. ‘Chooky’ Falkner dies at 76 (April
26, 2004) |
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| March
2004 |
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Book Conference
to honor Mildred Taylor in statewide celebration (March
18, 2004) |
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11th
Oxford Conference for the Book dedicated to novelist Walker Percy (March
17, 2004) |
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Book
recounts African-American artist’s pre-integration study at University
of Mississippi (March
16, 2004) |
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Literary
programs in Jackson, Delta bookend Oxford Book Conference (March
10, 2004) |
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Authors
gather in Oxford for 11th Annual Book Conference April 1-4 (March
9, 2004) |
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| February
2004 |
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Endowment
establishes nation’s first Faulkner studies dissertation fellowship (February
9, 2004) |
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Writer
Richard Ford to read at Ole Miss Feb. 12 (February
9, 2004) |
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| January
2004 |
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Louis
Dollarhide, Ole Miss English professor emeritus, dies at 85 (January
17, 2004) |
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Ole Miss
professor Adam Gusson wins award for book on murder and blues (January
13, 2004) |
Writer News: 2003
| December
2003 |
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Call
for Papers: Delta Blues Symposium X: The 1950s (added
Dec. 9, 2003), deadline for submissions: Jan. 5, 2004 |
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Barry
Hannah receives national short fiction award (Dec. 17, 2003) |
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Veteran history professor John F. Marszalek returns to
MSU to head scholarship program (Dec.
15, 2003) |
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Call
for Papers: Welty in/and America (added Dec.
24, 2003), deadline for submissions: March 1, 2004 |
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| November
2003 |
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Food
writer John T. Edge named ‘Top 20 Southerner’ by
news magazine (Nov.
26, 2003) |
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| October
2003 |
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Eudora
Welty house to become a museum (Oct.
13, 2003) |
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| September
2003 |
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Jim
Henson statue unveiled at University of Maryland (Sept. 25, 2003) |
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David
Galef reading to begin Mississippi State University Visiting Writers Series
(Sept. 23, 2003) |
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Faulkner
birthday to be celebrated Sept. 25 at Ole Miss (Sept. 20, 2003) |
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Call
for Papers: The Mississippi Encyclopedia |
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Call
for Papers: Faulkner in the 21st Century (Deadline: November
30, 2003) |
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| August
2003 |
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Writer,
instructor James Whitehead dies at 67 (Aug. 16, 2003) |
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Georgia
author, naturalist named Grisham Writer-in-Residence (Aug. 4,
2003) |
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| July
2003 |
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Arts Commission
to support Thacker Mountain Radio (July 31, 2003) |
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Call
for Papers: Faulkner and Material Culture, deadline for
submissions: Jan. 15, 2004 |
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| June
2003 |
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Faulkner
Conference to focus on South’s ecology (June 28, 2003) |
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UM
Journalism seeks nominations for journalism ‘Silver Em’ award
(June 27, 2003) |
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University
of Mississippi Library receives Eudora Welty scrapbook (June
24, 2003) |
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30th
Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference to examine ‘Faulkner and the
Ecology of the South’ (June 13, 2003) |
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Grisham
writer-in-residence ends year with new works (June 3, 2003) |
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Marty
Stuart, Merle Haggard announce tour, perform at Faulkner home
(June 2, 2003) |
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| May
2003 |
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Faulkner’s
home sets stage for country stars’ performance, tour announcement
(May 30, 2003) |
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Latest
issue of ‘Yalobusha Review’ literary journal hits newsstands
(May 28, 2003) |
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Tallahatchie
RiverFest seeks short fiction (May 27, 2003) |
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Jim
Henson’s children repurchase the company their father founded
(May 7, 2003) |
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| April
2003 |
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Film
version of John Grisham’s ‘A Painted House’ to air on CBS
April 27 (April 22, 2003) |
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Poetry,
music event to raise money for Mississippi State University literary magazine
(April 21, 2003) |
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10th Oxford
Book Conference celebrates novelist, drama critic Stark Young
(April 4, 2003) |
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| March
2003 |
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Tenth Oxford
Conference for the Book scheduled for April 10-13 (March 31,
2003) |
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Stars
to be on hand for opening of University of Mississippi performing arts center
(March 17, 2003) |
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Poet
Beth Ann Fennelly reads at Library of Congress, on ‘Voice of America’
(March 10, 2003) |
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MSU
English professor named associate dean (March 7, 2003) |
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| February
2003 |
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Revived
Oprah book club to focus on classics (February 27, 2003) |
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Retired
Mississippi State University helps plan upcoming national tributes
(February 25, 2003) |
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Key
West festival honors Tennesee Williams (February 23, 2003) |
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Call
for Papers: Faulkner in the World (added February 18, 2003),
deadline for submissions: September 30, 2003 |
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Clifton
Taulbert, famed author, visits Oxford (February 18, 2003) |
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Pulitzer
Prize-nominated author Clifton Taulbert to speak at Ole Miss Feb. 17
(February 13, 2003) |
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| January
2003 |
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Back
from the brink, Oxford American to publish ‘relaunch issue’
this month (January 16, 2003) |
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Visiting
Ole Miss professor wins National Endowment for Arts award (January
9, 2003) |
Writer News: 2002
| December
2002 |
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Man
accused of stealing Faulkner letters (Dec. 4, 2002) |
| November
2002 |
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Ole Miss
professor heads to Italy for Rockefeller program (Nov. 4, 2002) |
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New
novel by Donna Tartt hits bookstores (Nov. 1, 2002) |
| October
2002 |
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Playwright
Beth Henley’s mother stabbed to death (Oct. 25, 2002) |
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Call for
papers: Proposed edited collection on Barry Hanny (added Oct.
21, 2002) |
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Historian
Stephen Ambrose dies at 66 (Oct. 13, 2002) |
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Call for
papers: John Kennedy Toole (added Oct. 12, 2002) |
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Clarksdale
to host Tennessee Williams Festival (Oct. 11, 2002) |
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New book
tours literary Mississippi (Oct. 8, 2002) |
| September
2002 |
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Integration
anniversary draws many to University of Mississippi campus (Sep.
27, 2002) |
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Myrlie
Evers-Williams to help dedicate civil rights memorial at Ole Miss Oct. 1
(Sep. 12, 2002) |
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Barry Hannah
one of 3 to receive Distinguished Faculty Fellowships (Sep. 6,
2002) |
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Latest issue
of Yalobusha Review literary journal hits newsstands (Sep.
3, 2002) |
| August
2002 |
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New Ole
Miss professor brings blues into the classroom (Aug. 29, 2002) |
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Award-winning
poets to launch Visiting Writers Series Sept. 5 at Ole Miss (Aug.
20, 2002) |
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Call
for papers: “Faulkner and Ideology,” The Faulkner
Journal, Vol. 21-22, Fall 2005-Spring 2006 (added Aug. 17, 2002) |
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Call
for papers: “Faulkner and the Ecology of the South,”
30th Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, Mississippi,
July 20-25, 2003 (added Aug. 6, 2002) |
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Call
for papers: “Hemingway, Faulkner, and the Great American Writer: The
Sound and Fury of Competition,” American Literature Association
Conference, March 22-25, 2003 (added Aug. 17, 2002) |
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Call
for papers: “Disclosing the Secret in Eudora Welty’s Fiction
and Photography,” American Literature Association Conference,
March 22-25, 2003 (added Aug. 6, 2002) |
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Call
for papers: “Sideshow Wonders: Carnivals, Parades, Pageants, and Fairs
in Eudora Welty’s Works,” South Atlantic Modern Language
Association Convention, November 14-16, 2003 (added Aug. 6, 2002) |
| July
2002 |
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New
Grisham film finally set to begin filming in September (July
29, 2002) |
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Call
for papers: Delta Blues Symposium IX: Defining the Delta (July
28, 2002) |
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Oxford
American looking at move to Arkansas to stay alive (July
23, 2002) |
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29th
Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, ‘Faulkner and His Contemporaries,’
starts Sunday, lasts through Friday, July 26 (July 18, 2002) |
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Tickets
for Faulkner Conference folk opera ‘As I Lay Dying’ on sale to public
(July 18, 2002) |
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Kate
Freeman Clark’s surprise art exhibition opens Sunday, runs through September
(July 18, 2002) |
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Faulkner
home to open temporarily for conference, then close until Spring 2003
(July 15, 2002) |
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Mississippi
State University online resource highlights state’s black authors
(July 1, 2002) |
| June
2002 |
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Berry
Morgan, 83, dies in West Virginia (June 22, 2002) |
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Journalists’
need for math skills prompts prof’s new book (June 18, 2002) |
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Tom
Franklin, Grisham writer-in-residence at Ole Miss, ends year with new novel
(June 17, 2002) |
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John
Marszaleck, Mississippi State University historian, named ‘best speaker’
by national body (June 10, 2002) |
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Shay
Youngblood is University of Mississippi Grisham writer-in-residence for
2002-03 (June 3, 2002) |
| May
2002 |
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Yazoo
City remembers Willie Morris in Memorial Day weekend celebration
(May 17, 2002) |
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Time
running out for ‘Oxford American’ magazine (May 15,
2002) |
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Faulkner’s
work, home attract C-SPAN for live May 5 broadcast (May 2, 2002) |
| April
2002 |
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Mississippi
State University library exhibit highlights art, writings of Laurie Parker
(April 30, 2002) |
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Best-selling
author, alumnus Greg Iles to visit Ole Miss April 30 (April 29,
2002) |
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Medgar
Evers papers donated to state of Mississippi (April 25, 2002) |
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William
Ferris, southern culture expert, former NEH chairman, joins University of
North Carolina faculty (April 23, 2002) |
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PBS
miniseries to show life on the frontier (April 19, 2002) |
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Workshop
offers ‘Novel Ideas’: How to start writing, get published
(April 17, 2002) |
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Tennessee
Williams’ ‘Slapstick Tragedy’ performances set for April
18-20 (April 12, 2002) |
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Faulkner
& Yoknapatawpha Conference to examine ‘Faulkner and His Contemporaries’
(April 12, 2002) |
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University
of Mississippi library to feature Tennessee Williams exhibition
(April 10, 2002) |
| March
2002 |
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Museum
to feature Welty photographs alongside works by other artists
(March 31, 2002) |
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Oxford
Book Conference celebrates Tennessee Williams, Grisham Writers-in-Residence
(March 26, 2002) |
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Legislature
plans Welty home funds (March 25, 2002) |
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Saks
Fellowships available to high school teachers for Faulkner Conference
(March 21, 2002) |
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Faulkner
newsletter ceases publication after 20 year run (March 20, 2002) |
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Lewis
Nordan, John Marszalek receive Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award
(March 15, 2002) |
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Retired
journalism professor Jere Hoar to be honored with reception April 5
(March 13, 2002) |
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University
of Southern Mississippi Libraries present online exhibit on Will D. Campbell
(March 1, 2002) |
| February
2002 |
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2002 Faulkner
& Yoknapatawpha Conference to examine ‘Faulkner and His Contempories’
(February 28, 2002) |
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Turn
Faulkner reading into literary adventure (February 28, 2002)
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Unique
Faulkner portrait donated to University of Mississippi library
(February 27, 2002) |
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University
Press and Bookfriends to hold ‘Super Sale’ Feb. 22-24
(February 19, 2002) |
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Ninth
annual book conference to focus on Tennessee Williams (February
14, 2002) |
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Book
conference follows Larry Brown’s short stories to the screen
(February 13, 2002) |
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Grisham’s
Southern campaign rallies fans around independent bookstores
(February 7, 2002) |
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C-SPAN
to resume ‘American Writers’; Faulkner program to air May 5
(February 6, 2002) |
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Oxford
American cuts back to four issues per year (February 1, 2002)
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| January
2002 |
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Southern
Culture Center to compile encylopedia of Mississippi (January
28, 2002) |
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Magnolia
Independent Film Festival scheduled for February 7-9, 2002 (January
24, 2002) |
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Progress
continues toward erected civil rights monument on the University of Mississippi
campus (January 11, 2002) |
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Stephen
Ambrose faces more plagiarism questions (January 10, 2002) |
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Historian
Ambrose sorry for copying phrases (January 6, 2002) |
Writer News: 2001
| December
2001 |
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Jimmy
Faulkner, nephew of William, dies at 78 (December 24, 2001) |
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CALL
FOR PAPERS: Delta Blues Symposium VIII: The Sacred and the Secular
(Fall 2001) |
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William
Faulkner’s Rowan Oak house to close six months for renovations; grounds
to remain open (December 5, 2001) |
| November
2001 |
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Mississippi
writers association announces 14th annual ‘Let’s Write’ Literary
Contest (November 14, 2001) |
| October
2001 |
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Germantown
Arts Alliance honors Charles Reagan Wilson, director of Southern Culture
Center at the University of Mississippi (October 31, 2001) |
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CALL FOR
PAPERS: Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference 2002, “Faulkner and
His Contemporaries” (Fall 2001) |
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Eudora
Welty’s
‘The
Ponder Heart’
to air on ETV (October 3, 2001) |
| September
2001 |
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C-SPAN
postpones remainder of ‘American Writers’ series until Spring
2002 (September 24, 2001) |
| August
2001 |
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Stephen
Ambrose’s ‘Band of Brothers’ miniseries set for this fall
on HBO (August 31, 2001) |
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William
Faulkner to be featured on C-SPAN’s
‘American
Writers’
series (August 24, 2001) |
| July
2001 |
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Welty
manuscripts stir interest (July 30, 2001) |
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Eudora Welty
dies at 92 (July 23, 2001) |
Writer News: 2000
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