A Compendium of Births,
Deaths, Publications, Awards, and Other Events in Mississippi’s Literary
History
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2000
Publications:
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental
Railroad, 1863-1869, by Stephen
E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
The $66 Summer, juvenile fiction by John
Armistead (Milkweed Editions).
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War, by Howard
Bahr (Henry Holt).
The Law of Averages: New and Selected Stories, by Frederick
Barthelme (Counterpoint Press).
Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had, by Rick
Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty,
Lively, Snappy Young Woman Can Say on a Variety of Topics, by Sherwood
Bonner (University of Tennessee Press).
Edward Cohen
was awarded the Nonfiction Award by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters
and the Mississippi Authors Award for Nonfiction by the Mississippi Library
Association for The Peddlers Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi.
April 10: A new play by
Beth Henley, Family Week, opened at the Off-Broadway Century Theatre
for the Performing Arts in New York, starring Angelina Phillips, Rose Gregorio,
and Carol Kane, and directed by Ulu Grosbard. It closed on April 16 after being
savaged by critics.
2001
Publications:
Nevada Barr Presents Malice
Domestic 10: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories, edited
by Nevada Barr (Avon).
Billy Ray's Farm, essays
by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
The South and the
Caribbean: Essays and Commentaries, edited by Douglass Sullivan-González
and Charles Reagan
Wilson (University Press of Mississippi).
February 9: The motion picture Hannibal, the sequel to Silence
of the Lambs, premiered in theatres, directed by Ridley Scott and starring
Anthony Hopkins. The screenplay is based on the novel by Thomas
Harris.
April
16: A revival of Beth
Henleys play Crimes of the Heart opened at the Second Stage
Theater in New York. The play starred Amy Ryan, Mary Catherine Garrison, and Enid
Graham, and was directed by Garry Hynes.
July 23:Eudora
Welty died following a bout of pneumonia in Jackson, Mississippi.
December 24:Jimmy
Faulkner died in a Tupelo, Mississippi, hospital.
Launching Our
Black Children for Success: A Guide for Parents of Kids from Three to Eighteen,
by Joyce A. Ladner
and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo (John Wiley & Sons).
The Best of Beach
Walks, by George Thatcher
(Quail Ridge Press).
Built by the Owners
Design: The Positive Approach to Building Your Church Gods Way, by Danny
Von Kanel (CSS Publishing).
On Wiliam Faulkner,
by Eudora Welty (University
Press of Mississippi).
Some Notes from River
Country, by Eudora Welty
(University Press of Mississippi).
Zig Ziglars
Life Lifters: Moments of Inspiration for Living Life Better, by Zig
Ziglar (Broadman and Holman).
Music from Apartment
8: New and Selected Poems,
by John Stone (LSU Press).
January
16: Former University of Mississippi English professor Louis
Dollarhide died
in Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of 85, after several months of declining health.
April
11: Author Joan Williams died
at the age of 75.
November
24: Author Larry Brown died of a heart attack
at his home near Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of 53.
Aug.
29: Hurricane Katrina hit landfall along the Gulf Coast near Waveland,
Miss., killing thousands of people and causing billions of dollars in property
damage
in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. In response to the storm, author
John Grisham announced he
and his wife were setting
up a relief fund and personally donating $5 million to aid in rebuilding
the devastated areas along the Mississippi coast.
June
27: Novelist
and historian Shelby
Foote died
in Memphis at the age of 88.
2006
Publications:
The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect, byJames A. Autry and Peter Roy (Broadway Books).
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War, by Howard Bahr (Henry Holt & Co.).
The Lives of Rocks: Stories, by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).