1980

• The Inaugural Papers of Governor William F. Winter, edited by Charlotte Capers (Mississippi Department of Archives and History).
• This Ravished Rose, a romance novel by Anne Carsley (Pocket Books).
• The Pocket Guide to Wine, by Barbara Ensrud (Putnam).
• Ray, a novel by Barry Hannah (Knopf).
• Sweet and Deadly, by Charlaine Harris (Houghton).
• Grow Healthy Kids!: A Parents’ Guide to Sound Nutrition, by Linda Peavy and Andrea Pagenkopf (Grosset & Dunlap).
• The Second Coming, a novel by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus).
• Lighting the Furnace Pilot, poems by Paul Ruffin (Spoon River Poetry Press)
• In All This Rain, poems by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Harcourt).
• A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Steps Must Be Gentle, a play by Tennessee Williams (Targ).
• 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.