1972

• Dialect Tales and Suwanee River Tales, facsimile reprint editions, by Sherwood Bonner (Books for Libraries Press).
• Geronimo Rex, a novel by Barry Hannah (Viking).
• Brother Holyfield: A Novel, by Jay Higginbotham (Thomas-Hull).
• Court Martial: A Black Man in America, by John F. Marszalek (Scribner).
• The Smell of Matches, poems by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• The Optimist's Daughter, a novel by Eudora Welty (Random House).
• Captain Blackman, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Doubleday).
• What the Negro Wants, contributor Richard Wright, editors Hiroshi Nagase and Tsutomu Kanashiki (Kaitakusha).

Tennessee Williams's play Small Craft Warnings produced off-Broadway.

Premiere of the film Tomorrow, based on the short story by William Faulkner.

Willie Morris receives the Steck-Vaughn Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Good Old oy: A Delta Boyhood.