2000

• 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).
• Deep South, a novel by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• 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).
• Fay, a novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• Even a Stone Buddha Can Talk: The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs, by David Galef (Tuttle).
• Mississippi River Country Tales: A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History, by Jim Fraiser (Pelican).
• For Love of the Game: The Holy Wars of Millsaps College & Mississippi College Football, by Jim Fraiser (Mississippi Sports Council).
• The Cabal and Other Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• Collected Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• The Brethren, by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• A Painted House, by John Grisham (Oxford American).
• Buried Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Bantam).
• Texas Midnight, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Obsession, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Shakespeare’s Trollop, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Collected Plays: Volume I, 1980-1989 and Collected Plays: Volume II, 1990-1999, by Beth Henley (Smith & Kraus).
• Mauvila, by Jay Higginbotham (A. B. Bahr/Factor).
• 24 Hours, by Greg Iles (Putnam).
• Empire of Unreason, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• Deep Wonder, poems by Philip C. Kolin (Gray Owl Press).
• The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House, by John F. Marszalek (Louisiana State University Press).
• My Mississippi, by Willie Morris (University Press of Mississippi).
• Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir, by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin Books).
• The Last Ride, by Glen “Pee Wee” Mercer with Patrick D. Smith (Sea Bird Publishing).
• Beach Walks II, by George Thatcher (Quail Ridge Press).
• Hyming & Hawing About America: A Few Symbol-Minded Essays, by Frank Trippett (Xlibris).
• Game Plan, by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's).
  

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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 Peddler’s 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

• 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).
• Web Hosting, by Carl Burnham (McGraw-Hill).
• Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process, by Margaret-Love Denman and Barbara Shoup (Macmillan).
• Conversations with Richard Ford, edited by Huey Guagliardo (University Press of Mississippi).
• A Painted House, by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Midnight Burning, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Lullaby, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris (Penguin/Ace).
• Shakespeare’s Counselor, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Useless Virtues, by T. R. Hummer (Louisiana State University Press).
• Dead Sleep, by Greg Iles (Putnam).
• New Orleans Style, by Shirley Jean Johnson (Writers Club Press).
• Edge of Victory I: Conquest, by Greg Keyes (Del Rey).
• Edge of Victory II: Rebirth, by Greg Keyes (Del Rey).
• The Shadows of God, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• The New Urban Leaders, by Joyce A. Ladner (Brookings Institution Press).
• Taps, by Willie Morris (Houghton Mifflin).
• Why Did I Ever, by Mary Robison (Counterpoint).
• Islands, Women, and God, stories by Paul Ruffin (Browder Springs Press).
• African American Women Scientists and Inventors, by Otha Richard Sullivan (Wiley).
• Little Cliff’s First Day of School, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Dial Books for Young Readers).
• The Land, by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial).
• Deep Sleep, by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's).
• The South and the Caribbean: Essays and Commentaries, edited by Douglass Sullivan-González and Charles Reagan Wilson (University Press of Mississippi).

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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 Henley’s 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.

2002

• Hunting Season, by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• The Hermit’s Story: Stories, by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• The Roadless Yaak: Reflections and Observations About One of Our Last Great Wilderness Areas, by Rick Bass (Lyons Press).
• The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen (Delta).
• Tyrus: An American Legend, a novel by Patrick Creevy (Forge).
• Mississippi Delta Women in Prism, by Claire T. Feild (NewSouth Books).
• A Multitude of Sins: Stories, by Richard Ford (Knopf).
• Majesty of the Mississippi Delta, by Jim Fraiser (Pelican).
• Laugh Track, by David Galef (University Press of Mississippi).
• The Summons, by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Splintered Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Delacorte).
• Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris (Penguin/Ace).
• Last Scene Alive, by Charlaine Harris (Minotaur).
• Grit ’n Greens and Mississippi Things, by Sylvia Higginbotham (Parlance).
• Sleep No More, by Greg Iles (Putnam).
• In the Deep Hearts Core, by Michael Johnston (Grove Press).
• Frontier House, by Simon Shaw, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Pocket Books).
• Pompeii Man, a novel by Paul Ruffin (Louisiana Literature Press).
• Rescuing Jesus from the Christians, by Clayton Sullivan (Trinity Press International).
• The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Council Oak Books).
• Little Cliff and the Cold Place, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Dial Books for Young Readers).
• Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, by Henry Clay Anderson, with an essay by Clifton L. Taulbert (PublicAffairs).
• The Heaven of Mercury, a novel by Brad Watson (W.W. Norton).
• The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams, edited by David E. Roessel and Nicholas Rand Moschovakis (New Directions).
• 1946: A Poem, by Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (Ishmael Reed).

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June 19: Fiction writer Berry Morgan died at the age of 83 in Sumit Point, West Virginia.

October 13: Historian Stephen E. Ambrose died at the age of 66 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

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