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).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the 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 Henley’s 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.