1985

• Pegasus Bridge: 6 June, 1944, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Tracer, a novel by Frederick Barthelme (Simon & Schuster).
• The Deer Pasture, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Texas A & M University Press).
• Second Marriage, screenplay by Frederick Barthelme based on his novel.
• The Natchez Trace, photographs by Harold Young, text by Patti Carr Black (University Press of Mississippi).
• Tempest, a romance novel by Anne Carsley (Pinnacle).
• There Were Also Strangers: A Novel, by Borden Deal (New Horizon Press).
• Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry, by William Faulkner, edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (University Press of Mississippi).
• Novels, 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon, by William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Library of America).
• The Miss Firecracker Contest, a play by Beth Henley (Dramatists Play Service).
• A Black Physician’s Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi, by John F. Marszalek and Douglas L. Conner (University Press of Mississippi).
• Looking for Bobby, a novel by Gloria Norris (Knopf).
• Dreams into Deeds: Nine Women Who Dared, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Scribner).
• Conversations with Walker Percy, edited by Lewis A. Lawson and Victor A. Kramer (University Press of Mississippi).
• An Editorial Handbook for William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, by Noel Polk (Garland).
• Said There Was Somebody Talking to Him through the Air Conditioner, by James Seay (Palaemon Press Limited).
• Renaming the Streets, poems by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• Called to Preach, Condemned to Survive: The Education of Clayton Sullivan, by Clayton Sullivan (Mercer University Press).
• The Berhama Account, a novel by John Alfred Williams (New Horizons Press).
• Religion in the South: Essays, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson (University Press of Mississippi).
• Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World, by Zig Ziglar.
• Steps to the Top, by Zig Ziglar.
• Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale, by Zig Ziglar.

Beth Henley's play The Debutante Ball first produced in Costa Mesa, California, at South Coast Repertory.

Steve Barthelme receives a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project award.

Richard Ford receives a second National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for 1985-86.