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- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): late 20th century
Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner’s finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author’s outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black...
- Location(s): Mississippi, Mississippi River
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1860s
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed; they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. “Jewel” is the story...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down–not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he has to call upon his two remaining friends to help...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend...
- Location(s): Banner, Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
On the hot, dry first Sunday of August, three generations of Granny Vaughn’s descendants gather at her home in the little town of Banner, Mississippi, to celebrate her ninetieth birthday. The celebrations take only two days, but many members...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson’s work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th cent
Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and “Eddie” from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man). In 1943 in a sleepy town...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘As an adult, I learned this: persist. Work hard.’ ‘Face rejection, weather the setbacks, until you meet the gatekeeper who will open a door for you.’ Jesmyn Ward grew up in a poor, rural community in Mississippi. Today, as...
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