1968

• The Advocate, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• Where the Dreams Cross, by Ellen Douglas (Houghton).
• Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner 1926-1962, by William Faulkner, edited by James B. Meriwether and Michael Millgate (Random House).
• New Orleans Sketches, by William Faulkner, edited by Carvel Collins (Random House).
• Pascagoula: Singing River City, by Jay Higginbotham (Gill Press).
• Mobile: City by the Bay, by Jay Higginbotham (Azalea City Printers).
• Coming of Age in Mississippi, autobiography by Anne Moody (Dial Press).
• Kingdom of the Earth, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Letters to Joe C. Brown, by Richard Wright, edited by Thomas Knipp (Kent State University Libraries).

December 21: Sterling Plumpp married Falvia Delgrazia Jackson.

Tennessee Williams's play The Seven Descents of Myrtle produced on Broadway.

"Daddy's Goodness," a play by Richard Wright, is first produced Off-Broadway at St. Mark's Playhouse.

Premiere of the film Boom, based on the stage play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymoreby Tennessee Williams.

Willie Morris receives the Francis Parkman Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters for North Toward Home.