1979

• The Rock Cried Out, by Ellen Douglas (Harcourt).
• Uncollected Stories, by William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Random House).
• The Land Surveyor’s Daughter: Poems, by Ellen Gilchrist (Lost Roads).
• Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky, edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (University Press of Virginia).
• William Faulkner: A Perspective from the Brodsky Collection, by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (Southeast Missouri State University).
• The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866, edited by John F. Marszalek (Louisiana State University Press).
• The Working Mother's Complete Handbook, by Gloria Norris (Dutton).
• The Literary Manuscripts of Harold Frederic: A Catalogue, by Noel Polk (Garland).
• Privacy in Britain, by Walter F. Pratt, Jr. (Bucknell University Press).
• The Texas Anthology, edited by Paul Ruffin and Gene Arnold Rister (Sam Houston State University Press).
• Allapattah, by Patrick D. Smith (Manor Books).
• The Two-Character Play, by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Vieux Carre, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• The Life and Work of Richard Wright, edited by David Ray and Robert M. Farnsworth (University of Missouri).

Beth Henley's play Crimes of the Heart produced in Louisville, Kentucky, by Actors Theatre.

January 17: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer by Tennessee Williams opens off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre in New York. It performs only 36 times.