1990

• How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature, nonfiction by Margaret Walker Alexander, edited by Maryemma Graham (Feminist Press at the City University of New York).
• Eisenhower: Soldier and President, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Dialect Tales, by Sherwood Bonner, edited by William Frank (NCUP).
• The Boys Who Would Be Cubs: A Season in the Heart of Baseball’s Minor Leagues, by Joseph Bosco (Morrow).
• Big Bad Love, stories by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• A Scrambling After Circumstance, by Margaret-Love Denman (Viking).
• Novels, 1936-1940: Absalom, Absalom!, The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, The Hamlet, by William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Library of America).
• The Best American Short Stories 1990, edited by Richard Ford (Houghton-Miflin).
• Wildlife, a novel by Richard Ford (Little, Brown).
• I Cannot Get You Close Enough: Three Novellas, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• Fear Familiar, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• The Apple-Green Triumph and Other Stories, by Martha Lacy Hall (Louisiana State University Press).
• Real Murders, by Charlaine Harris (Walker).
• Faulkner's Mississippi, nonfiction by Willie Morris (Oxmoor House).
• The Gold Rush Widows of Little Falls , by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Minnesota Historical Society Press).
• Contemporary Southern Short Fiction: A Sampler, edited by George P. Garrett and Paul Ruffin (Texas Review Press)
• The Light as They Found It, by James Seay (Morrow).
• Toward a Mature Faith: Does Biblical Inerrancy Make Sense?, by Clayton Sullivan (SBC Today).
• Mississippi Bridge, by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial).
• The Road to Memphis, by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial).
• Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982, by Tennessee Williams (Knopf).
• Nightwatcher, a novel by Charles Wilson (Carroll & Graf).
• Zig Ziglar's Favorite Quotations, by Zig Ziglar.

Beth Henley's play Crimes of the Heart produced in Boston at the Nickerson Theater.

Beth Henley's play The Lucky Spot produced at Chicago's Center Theater.

Beth Henley's play Abundance produced in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Steve Barthelme receives a Hemingway Short Story Award.

May 10: Walker Percy dies of cancer in Covington, Louisiana.