1955

• The Sin Shouter of Cabin Road, by John Faulkner (Fawcett).
• Big Woods, short stories by William Faulkner (Random House).
• The Bride of Innisfallen, and Other Stories, by Eudora Welty (Harcourt).
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a play by Tennessee Williams (New American Library).
• Lord Byron's Love Letter, by Tennessee Williams (Ricodi).

Danny Von Kanel was born in Macon, Mississippi.

February 8: John Grisham born in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Tennessee Williams's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof produced on Broadway. It wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Premiere of the film Land of the Pharaohs, screenplay by William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, and Harold Jack Bloom.

Premiere of the film The Rose Tattoo, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

William Faulkner receives a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for A Fable.