Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1868-1920, by
Charles Reagan Wilson
(University of Georgia Press).
Beth Henley's play The Miss Firecracker Contest premieres in Los Angeles at the Victory Theater. Later that year it is produced off-Broadway in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Tennessee Williams's plays A House Not Meant to Stand and Something Cloudy, Something Clear are produced in Chicago and off-Broadway, respectively.
Eudora Welty receives a National Medal for Literature and a Presidential Medal for Freedom.