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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Book News title list for 2001.
February 9: The motion picture Hannibal, the sequel to Silence
of the Lambs, premieres 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 opens at the Second Stage
Theater in New York. The play stars Amy Ryan, Mary Catherine Garrison, and Enid
Graham, and is directed by Garry Hynes.
July 23:Eudora
Welty dies following a bout of pneumonia in Jackson, Mississippi.
December 24:Jimmy
Faulkner dies in a Tupelo, Mississippi, hospital.