1956

• Walk through the Valley, by Borden Deal (Scribner)
• Faulkner at Nagano, speeches and interviews by William Faulkner, edited by Robert A. Jelliffe (Kenkyusha Ltd.).
• Baby Doll: The Script of the Film, by Tennessee Williams (New American Library).
• The Color Curtain, nonfiction by Richard Wright (World).
• In the Winter of Cities, poetry by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, by Richard Wright (World).
• Best Plays by Chekhov: The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, the Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard, translation by Stark Young (Random House)

December 16: James Meredith married Mary June Wiggins.

Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart is adapted for the stage and produced on Broadway.

Premiere of the film Baby Doll, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.