1951

• Cabin Road, by John Faulkner (Fawcett).
• Notes on a Horsethief, by William Faulkner (Levee Press).
• Love in a Dry Season, a novel by Shelby Foote (Dial Press).
• I Rise a Flame, Cried the Phoenix, a play by Tennessee Williams (J. Laughlin).
• Requiem for a Nun, a novel by William Faulkner (Random House).
• The Rose Tattoo, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• The Pavilion: Of People and Tiems Remembered, of Stories and Places, by Stark Young (C. Scribner's Sons)

July 9: Larry Brown born in Oxford, Mississippi.

October 3: Neil McGaughey born in Natchez, Mississippi.

November 25: Charlaine Harris born in Tunica, Mississippi.

February 3: Tennessee Williams’s play The Rose Tattoo produced on Broadway.

Premiere of the film A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

Premiere of the film Native Son, screenplay by Richard Wright and based on his novel.