1998

• The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys—The Men of World War II, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery, by Stephen E. Ambrose (National Geographic Society).
• A Homecoming for Murder, by John Armistead (Dell).
• Real Power: Lessons for Business from the Tao Te Ching, nonfiction by James A. Autry (Putnam).
• Where the Sea Used to Be, a novel by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest, by Rick Bass (Lyons Press).
• Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980, by Patti Carr Black (University Press of Mississippi).
• Bluebirds Always Come on Sunday, by Will D. Campbell (Providence House).
• Shugah and Doops, by Will D. Campbell (Providence House).
• Next to Last Chance, by Louisa Dixon (Genesis Press).
• Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell, by Ellen Douglas (Algonquin).
• Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading, edited by David Galef (Wayne State University Press).
• Turning Japanese, by David Galef (Permanent Press).
• Flights of Angels: Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• Jackson: The Good Life, by Walt Grayson (Towery).
• The Street Lawyer, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Remember Me, Cowboy, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Fire, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Shakespeare’s Christmas, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Man, Nature and the Infinite: Random Thoughts and Impressions from the Journals, Interviews, Letters, Speeches, and Notebooks of Jay Higginbotham, 1961-1997, by Jay Higginbotham (Lighthouse Books).
• Newton’s Cannon, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• Auqustus Baldwin Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes' Completed, by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, edited by David Rachels (University of Georgia Press).
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop , by Margaree King Mitchell (Aladdin).
• Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Spencer (Random House).
• The Last Gentleman, by Walker Percy (Modern Library).
• Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story, by Charles Evers (John Wiley & Sons).
• The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood , by Willie Morris (Random House).
• A Corpse by Any Other Name: A Stokes Moran Mystery , by Neil McGaughey (Scribner).
• So There You Are: The Selected Prose of Glenn Brown, Journalist, by Glenn Brown, edited by Paul Ruffin (Texas Review Press).
• Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose, by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• Beach Walks, by George Thatcher (Quail Ridge Press).
• African American Inventors, by Otha Richard Sullivan (Wiley).
• Eudora Welty: Complete Novels, by Eudora Welty, edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling (Library of America).
• Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoir, by Eudora Welty, edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling (Library of America).
• Safari West: Poems, by John Alfred Williams (Hochelago).
• Not About Nightingales, by Tennessee Williams, edited by Allean Hale (New Directions).
• Religion and the American Civil War, edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson (Oxford University Press).
• The New Regionalism: Essays and Commentaries, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson (University Press of Mississippi).
• Black Boy and Native Son, by Richard Wright, (reprint editions by Harperperennial Library).
• Haiku: This Other World, by Richard Wright, edited by Yoshinobu Hakatuni and Robert L. Tener (Arcade).
• Veneer: Stories, by Steve Yarbrough (University of Missouri Press).
• Breaking Through to the Next Level, by Zig Ziglar (Honor Books).
• Confessions of a Grieving Christian, by Zig Ziglar (Thomas Nelson).
• What I Learned on the Way to the Top, by Zig Ziglar (Honor Books).
• Ain’t No Spring Chicken: Selected Poems, by Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (Voice Foundation).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the Book News title list for 1998.

October 15: Impossible Marriage, by Beth Henley, opens on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre in New York, starring Holly Hunter and directed by Stephen Wadsworth.

Premiere of The Gingerbread Man, directed by Robert Altman, story by John Grisham.

Premiere of Come West with Me, directed by Marleen Gorris, screenplay by Beth Henley based on her play Abundance.

June 18: Frank Trippett dies.

August 24: Jerry Clower dies following heart bypass surgery in Jackson, Mississippi.