1989

• This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems, by Margaret Walker Alexander (University of Georgia Press).
• Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Life After Mississippi, poems by James A. Autry (Yoknapatawpha Press).
• Natural Selection, a novel by Frederick Barthelme (Viking).
• The Watch, stories by Rick Bass (Norton).
• Oil Notes, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• Dirty Work, a novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• Chester & Chun Ling, by Will D. Campbell (Abingdon Press).
• Stallion Road, a screenplay by William Faulkner, edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (University Press of Mississippi).
• Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle: A Book of Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• A Time to Kill, fiction by John Grisham (Wynwood Press).
• Phantom Filly, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• The Brodsky Faulkner Collection, 1959-1989: The Collector's 101 Favorites, by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (Center for Faulkner Studies).
• Boomerang, a novel by Barry Hannah (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence).
• Discovering Russia: People and Places, by Jay Higginbotham (Progress).
• Homecomings, essays by Willie Morris; art by William Dunlap (University Press of Mississippi).
• To Come Up Grinning: A Tribute to George P. Garrett, edited by Paul Ruffin and Stuart Wright (Texas Review)
• Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Council Oak Books).
• Photographs, by Eudora Welty (University Press of Mississippi).
• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (University of North Carolina Press).

Beth Henley's play Crimes of the Heart produced in New Orleans at the Southern Repertory Theater.

Beth Henley's play Abundance first produced in Costa Mesa, California, at South Coast Repertory.

Premiere of Miss Firecracker, directed by Thomas Schlamme, screenplay by Beth Henley based on her play The Miss Firecracker Contest.

Television broadcast premiere of Sweet Bird of Youth, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.