1991

• Nixon: The Ruin and Recovery of a Politician, 1973-1990, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership, nonfiction by James A. Autry (Morrow).
• Winter: Notes from Montana, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• Joe, a novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• Best Wine Buys for $10 Or Less: A Guide for the Frugal Connaisseur Featuring Wines from around the World, by Barbara Ensrud (Villard).
• M Is for Mississippi: An Irreverent Guide to the Magnolia State, humor by Jim Fraiser (Persimmon Press).
• The Firm, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• The Jaguar’s Eye, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Never Die, a novel by Barry Hannah (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence).
• Abundance, a play by Beth Henley (Dramatists Play Service).
• The Debutante Ball, a play by Beth Henley (University Press of Mississippi).
• Adolescence and Black Poverty: Challenge for the 1990s, edited by Joyce A. Ladner and Peter B. Edelman (Center for National Policy Press).
• Music of the Swamp, a novel by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin).
• Signposts in a Strange Land, nonfiction by Walker Percy, edited by Patrick Samway (Farrar, Straus).
• Looking Backward at Us,by William Raspberry (UP of Mississippi).
• Images of Texas in the Nation, edited by Terry D. Bilhartz and Paul Ruffin (Sam Houston State University Press)
• On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays, edited by John Stone (Simon & Schuster).
• Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, edited by Trudier Harris (Oxford University Press).
• If I Stop I'll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor, by John Alfred Williams and Dennis A. Williams (Thunder's Mouth).
• Mississippi, the State, photographs by Clyde H. Smith, text by Charles Reagan Wilson (Fort Church Publishers).
• Religion, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson (Gordon and Breach).
• Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Guidebook for the Complete Sales Professional, by Zig Ziglar.

Beth Henley's play Crimes of the Heart produced in Denver at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center.

Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs adapted for film by director Jonathan Demme (Orion).

Richard Ford receives an award from the Echoing Green Foundation.

Martha Lacy Hall receives an O. Henry Award for her short story "The Apple-Green Triumph."