1977

• Brother to a Dragonfly, by Will D. Campbell (Seabury Press).
• Legend of the Bluegrass, by Borden Deal (under the pseudonym "Leigh Borden") (Doubleday).
• Selected Letters of William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Random House).
• Mayday, a story by William Faulkner (University of Notre Dame Press).
• Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak, a memoir by Malcolm Franklin (The Society for the Study of Traditional Culture).
• Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711, by Jay Higginbotham (Museum of the City of Mobile).
• Mixed Families: Adopting Across Racial Boundaries, by Joyce A. Ladner (Doubleday).
• A Black Businessman in White Mississippi, 1866-1974 , by John F. Marszalek and Sadye Wier (University Press of Mississippi).
• Have a Healthy Baby: Doctor Recommended Nutritional Guide & Menus for Before, During and After Your Baby Is Born, by Linda Peavy (Drake).
• Lancelot, a novel by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus).
• Androgyne, Mon Amour, poetry by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Letters to Donald Windham, by Tennessee Williams (Holt, Rinehart).
• American Hunger, autobiography by Richard Wright (Harper).

Richard Ford awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1977-78.

Lewis Nordan receives the John Gould Fletcher Award for fiction from the University of Arkansas for his short story “Rat Song.”

Mildred D. Taylor receives the Newberry Award from the American Library Association for her book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976).

The first of George Thatcher’s newspaper column “Scenes from the Beach” was published in the Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun-Herald newspaper.

Tennessee Williams’ play Vieux Carre produced on Broadway.

Thomas Harris’ novel Black Sunday adapted for film by director John Frankenheimer (Paramount).