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.

May 16: Jim Henson dies of pneumonia in New York City.

1991

• Nixon: The Ruin and Recovery of a Politician, 1973-1990, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership, nonfiction by James A. Autry (Morrow).
• Winter: Notes from Montana, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• Joe, a novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• Best Wine Buys for $10 Or Less: A Guide for the Frugal Connaisseur Featuring Wines from around the World, by Barbara Ensrud (Villard).
• M Is for Mississippi: An Irreverent Guide to the Magnolia State, humor by Jim Fraiser (Persimmon Press).
• The Firm, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• The Jaguar’s Eye, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Never Die, a novel by Barry Hannah (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence).
• Abundance, a play by Beth Henley (Dramatists Play Service).
• The Debutante Ball, a play by Beth Henley (University Press of Mississippi).
• Adolescence and Black Poverty: Challenge for the 1990s, edited by Joyce A. Ladner and Peter B. Edelman (Center for National Policy Press).
• Music of the Swamp, a novel by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin).
• Signposts in a Strange Land, nonfiction by Walker Percy, edited by Patrick Samway (Farrar, Straus).
• Looking Backward at Us,by William Raspberry (UP of Mississippi).
• Images of Texas in the Nation, edited by Terry D. Bilhartz and Paul Ruffin (Sam Houston State University Press)
• On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays, edited by John Stone (Simon & Schuster).
• Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, edited by Trudier Harris (Oxford University Press).
• If I Stop I'll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor, by John Alfred Williams and Dennis A. Williams (Thunder's Mouth).
• Mississippi, the State, photographs by Clyde H. Smith, text by Charles Reagan Wilson (Fort Church Publishers).
• Religion, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson (Gordon and Breach).
• Ziglar on Selling: The Ultimate Guidebook for the Complete Sales Professional, by Zig Ziglar.

Beth Henley's play Crimes of the Heart produced in Denver at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center.

Thomas Harris' novel The Silence of the Lambs adapted for film by director Jonathan Demme (Orion).

Richard Ford receives an award from the Echoing Green Foundation.

Martha Lacy Hall receives an O. Henry Award for her short story "The Apple-Green Triumph."

March 10: Etheridge Knight dies.

1992

• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• The Ninemile Wolves, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Clark City Press).
• Providence, by Will D. Campbell (Longstreet Press).
• Stories from Home, by Jerry Clower; foreword by Willie Morris (University Press of Mississippi).
• Lakeshore Drive, a novel by Patrick Creevy (Tor Books).
• Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925, by William Faulkner, edited by James G. Watson (Norton).
• The Granta Book of the American Short Story, edited by Richard Ford (Granta).
• Net of Jewels, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• The Pelican Brief, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Deadly Currents, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Fatal Ingredients, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• From the Ground Up: Poems of One Southerner's Passage to Adulthood, by Robert W. Hamblin (Time Being Books).
• Win or Win: A Season with Ron Shumate, by Robert W. Hamblin (Southeast Missouri University Foundation).
• A Bone to Pick, by Charlaine Harris (Walker).
• Beth Henley: Four Plays, by Beth Henley (Heinemann/Methuen).
• Monologues for Women, by Beth Henley (Dramaline).
• Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present, edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek (Greenwood Press).
• After All, It's Only a Game, essays by Willie Morris; art by Lynn Green Root (University Press of Mississippi).
• My Two Oxfords, essays by Willie Morris; wood engravings by John DePol (Yellow Barn).
• Jesus & the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church: A Fable, by Clayton Sullivan (Doubleday).
• The Secret History, the first novel by Donna Tartt (Knopf).
• The Last Train North, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Council Oak Books).
• Silent Witness, a novel by Charles Wilson (Carroll & Graf).
• Courtship After Marriage, by Zig Ziglar.

Beth Henley's play Abundance produced at the Actors Theatre in San Francisco.

Beth Henley's play Control Freaks premieres at Chicago's Center Theater, with Henley herself directing for the first time.

Lewis Nordan receives the Notable Book Award from the American Library Association and the Best Fiction Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

The Oxford American, a general-interest magazine from the South with a literary focus, publishes its first issue.

1993

• Track of the Cat, a novel by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• The Brothers, a novel by Frederick Barthelme (Viking).
• Blood Will Tell: A True Story of Deadly Lust in New Orleans, by Joseph Bosco (Morrow).
• On Fire, nonfiction by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• The Client, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Summer of Fear, by Carolyn Haines (Windsor).
• Hoodwinked, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Flesh and Blood, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Too Familiar, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Bats Out of Hell, short stories by Barry Hannah (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence).
• Spandau Phoenix, a novel by Greg Iles (Dutton).
• Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order, by John F. Marszalek (Free Press).
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop, chilren's fiction by Margaree King Mitchell (Simon & Schuster).
• New York Days, autobiography by Willie Morris (Little, Brown).
• Wolf Whistle, a novel by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin)
• That's What I Like (About the South), And Other Stories, edited by George P. Garrett and Paul Ruffin (University of South Carolina Press)
• The Man Who Would Be God: Stories, by Paul Ruffin (Southern Methodist University Press)
• The Cassandra Prophecy, a novel by Charles Wilson (Carroll & Graf).

Beth Henley's play The Miss Firecracker Contest produced in Beverly Hills, California, at Theater 40.

Beth Henley's play Control Freaks produced at the Met Theatre in Santa Monica, California, with Henley directing.

Premiere of The Firm, directed by Sydney Pollack, based on the novel by John Grisham.

Premiere of The Pelican Brief, directed by Alan J. Pakula based on the novel by John Grisham.

Television broadcast premiere of Suddenly, Last Summer, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

Steve Barthelme receives a Pushcart Prize for fiction.

1994

• D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• A Legacy of Vengeance, a novel by John Armistead (Carrol & Graf).
• Life and Work: A Manager's Search for Meaning, nonfiction by James A. Autry (Morrow).
• A Superior Death, a novel by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• Platte River, stories by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• Novels, 1942-1954: Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun, A Fable, by William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Library of America).
• Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior, by Ellen Gilchrist (UP of Mississippi).
• Starcarbon, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• The Chamber, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Summer of the Redeemers, by Carolyn Haines (Dutton).
• Cutting Edge, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Hoodwinked, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Shades of Familiar, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Remedy, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• "No Such Thing as Was": William Faulkner and Southern History, by Robert W. Hamblin (Center for Faulkner Studies).
• Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, by Charlaine Harris (Scribner).
• The Insiders' Guide to Mississippi, by Sylvia Higginbotham (Gulf Publishing Inc.).
• Lives of Promise, Lives of Pain: Young Mothers after New Chance, by Joyce A. Ladner et al. (Manpower).
• Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker, by John F. Marszalek (Collier).
• Otherwise Known as Murder, a mystery novel by Neil McGaughey (Scribner).
• Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (University of Oklahoma Press).
• Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work, by Noel Polk (University Press of Mississippi).
• When First We Deceive, a novel by Charles Wilson (Carroll & Graf).
• Over the Top, by Zig Ziglar.

Beth Henley's play Abundance produced at the Signature Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Nevada Barr receives the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for best novel of 1993 for Track of the Cat.

William Raspberry receives the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary.

Premiere of The Client, directed by Joel Schumacher, based on the novel by John Grisham.

February 5: A jury in Hinds County, Mississippi, convicted Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. This was the Beckwith’s third trial; the first two in the 1960s ended in hung juries.

August: Novelist John Grisham becomes publisher and part-owner of The Oxford American.

1995

• A Homecoming for Murder, a novel by John Armistead (Carrol & Graf).
• Ill Wind, a novel by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• Painted Desert, a novel by Frederick Barthelme (Viking).
• In the Loyal Mountains, stories by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• The Stem of Jessie: The Cost of Community in a 1960s Southern Community, by Will D. Campbell (Mercer University Press).
• Best Wine Buys for $12 and Under: A Guide for the Frugal Connaisseur, by Barbara Ensrud (Villard).
• "Rose of Lebanon," a previously unpublished short story by William Faulkner (in the May/June issue of The Oxford American).
• Independence Day, a novel by Richard Ford (Harvill Press).
• Flesh, by David Galef (Permanent Press).
• The Age of Miracles: Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• Rhoda: A Life in Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• The Rainmaker, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Familiar Tale, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Bewitching Familiar, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• The Julius House, by Charlaine Harris (Scribner).
• Black Cross, a novel by Greg Iles (Dutton).
• And Then There Were Ten, a mystery novel by Neil McGaughey (Scribner).
• Mississippi: A Volume of Eleven Books, history by James Meredith (Meredith Publishing)
• My Dog Skip, nonfiction by Willie Morris (Random House)
• A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season, nonfiction by Willie Morris; illustrations by Barry Moser (Harcourt Brace).
• The Sharpshooter Blues, a novel by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin).
• A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy, edited by Patrick Samway (University Press of Mississippi)
• After the Grapes of Wrath: Essays on John Steinbeck in Honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi, edited by Donald V. Coers, Paul Ruffin, and Robert J. DeMott (Ohio University Press)
• The Well, by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial).
• The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, edited by Miriam Decosta-Willis (Beacon).
• Something Cloudy, Something Clear, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Direct Descendant, a novel by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's Press).
• Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis, by Charles Reagan Wilson (University of Georgia Press).
• Top Performance, by Zig Ziglar and Jim Savage.

Beth Henley's play Signature first produced in Charlotte, N.C., by the Charlotte Repertory Company.

Television broadcast premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

1996

• Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Cruel as the Grave, a novel by John Armistead (Carrol & Graf).
• Confessions of an Accidental Businessman: It Takes a Lifetime to Find Wisdom , nonfiction by James A. Autry (Berrett-Koehler)
• Kermit W. Holley, Sr.: The Unsung Hero, by Ben E. Bailey.
• Father and Son, a novel by Larry Brown (Algonquin).
• Firestorm, a novel by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• The Book of Yaak, nonfiction by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• A Problem of Evidence: How the Prosecution Freed O.J. Simpson, by Joseph Bosco (Morrow).
• The Pear Tree That Bloomed in the Fall, by Will D. Campbell (Providence House).
• Charles Sumner, a biography by David Herbert Donald (Da Capo Press)
• Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story, autobiography by Charles Evers (John Wiley & Sons)
• Talking about William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others, by Sally Wolff with Floyd C. Watkins (Louisiana State University Press).
• The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, edited by Jay Tolson (Center for Documentary Studies)
• Tracks, juvenile fiction by David Galef (William Morrow).
• The Courts of Love: A Novella and Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• The Runaway Jury, a novel by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Touched, by Carolyn Haines (Dutton).
• A Christmas Kiss, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• High Lonesome, short stories by Barry Hannah (Atlantic Monthly Press).
• Dead Over Heels, by Charlaine Harris (Scribner).
• Shakespeare’s Landlord, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Clearance, a novel by Thomas Harris (Northwest).
• Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy , nonfiction by Winthrop D. Jordan (Louisiana State University Press)
• The Waterborn, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• The Best Money Murder Could Buy: A Stokes Moran Mystery, a novel by Neil McGaughey (Scribner)
• Granddaddy's Gift, by Margaree King Mitchell (Bridgewater Books)
• Sugar Among the Freaks: Selected Stories, by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin)
• The Seasons of Women: An Anthology, edited by Gloria Norris (W.W. Norton).
• Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Smithmark).
• Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner, by Noel Polk (University Press of Mississippi).
• Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, by Stephen M. Ross and Noel Polk (University Press of Mississippi).
• A Long Ways from Where I've Been: An African-American's Journey from the Jim Crow South to Chicago's Gold Coast , nonfiction by Roosevelt Richards (Noble Press)
• Circling, poems by Paul Ruffin (1996)
• The Wonder Book of the Air, a novel by Cynthia Shearer (Pantheon)
• In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine, essays by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• Last Days of the Dog-Men, short stories by Brad Watson
• Fertile Ground, a novel by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's Press).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the Book News title list for 1996.

Beth Henley's play Signature produced in Trenton, N.J., by the Passage Theater Co. (Mill Hill Playhouse).

Beth Henley's play L-Play first produced in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, by the Unicore Theatre Company as part of the Berkshire Theatre Festival.

Richard Ford receives the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel Independence Day.

Premiere of The Chamber, directed by James Foley, based on the novel by John Grisham.

Premiere of A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher, based on the novel by John Grisham.

Charlotte Capers dies.

1997

• On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992, nonfiction by Margaret Walker Alexander (University of Tennessee Press).
• Americans at War, by Stephen E. Ambrose (University Press of Mississippi).
• Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War, by Howard Bahr (Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America).
• Endangered Species, a novel by Nevada Barr (Putnam).
• Bob the Gambler, a novel by Frederick Barthelme (Houghton Mifflin).
• The Skies, the Stars, the Wilderness, fiction by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• Like unto Like, by Sherwood Bonner (University of South Carolina Press).
• And Also With You: Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma, nonfiction by Will D. Campbell (Providence House).
• A Redneck Night Before Christmas, by David Davis (Pelican).
• Margaret Cape: A Novel, by Wylene Dunbar (Harcourt Brace).
• Women With Men: Three Stories, by Richard Ford (Knopf).
• Shadow Seed, a novel by Jim Fraiser (Black Belt Press).
• Sarah Conley, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• The Partner, a novel by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Midnight Prey, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Heart, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Shakespeare’s Champion, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• The Debutante Ball, a play by Beth Henley (Dramatists Play Service).
• Mortal Fear, by Greg Iles (Dutton).
• Body Parts: A Story Collection, by Jere Hoar (University Press of Mississippi).
• From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir, nonfiction by Endesha Ida Mae Holland (Simon & Schuster).
• Mortal Fear, a novel by Greg Iles (Dutton).
• And All These Roads Be Luminous: Selected Poems 1969-1993 , by Angela Jackson (Triquarterly Books).
• The Blackgod, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the Conference on Ethics, Higher Education, and Social Responsibility, edited by Joyce A. Ladner and Segun Gbadegesin (Howard University Press).
• American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline, edited by John F. Marszalek and Wilson D. Miscamble (University of Notre Dame Press).
• A Corpse by Any Other Name: A Stokes Moran Mystery, a novel by Neil McGaughey (Scribner).
• Granddaddy’s Gift, juvenile fiction by Margaree King Mitchell (Bridgewater Books).
• Lightning Song, a novel by Lewis Nordan (Algonquin).
• Outside the Southern Myth, nonfiction by Noel Polk (University Press of Mississippi).
• A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer’s Writer, edited by Brooke Horvath, Irving Malin, and Paul Ruffin (University of Texas Press).
• Open Field, Understory, poems by James L. Seay (Louisiana State University Press).
• Watching Our Crops Come In, nonfiction by Clifton L. Taulbert (Viking).
• Eight Habits of the Heart: The Timeless Values That Build Strong Communities, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Viking).
• The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, edited by Jay Tolson (Norton).
• Extinct, a novel by Charles Wilson (St. Martin’s Press).
• Great Quotes from Zig Ziglar, by Zig Ziglar (Career Press).
• Over the Top, nonfiction by Zig Ziglar (Thomas Nelson).
• Zig Ziglar’s Little Instruction Book: Inspiration and Wisdom from America’s Top Motivator , nonfiction by Zig Ziglar (Honor Books).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the Book News title list for 1997.

November 9: Professor William R. Ferris was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

November 21: The Rainmaker, a film directed by Francis Coppola and based on the novel by John Grisham, premiered in the United States.

April 4: Poet Otis Williams, director of the Nyumburu Cultural Center at the University of Maryland, died suddenly in College Park, Maryland, at the age of 57.

1998

• The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys—The Men of World War II, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery, by Stephen E. Ambrose (National Geographic Society).
• A Homecoming for Murder, by John Armistead (Dell).
• Real Power: Lessons for Business from the Tao Te Ching, nonfiction by James A. Autry (Putnam).
• Where the Sea Used to Be, a novel by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin).
• The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest, by Rick Bass (Lyons Press).
• Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980, by Patti Carr Black (University Press of Mississippi).
• Bluebirds Always Come on Sunday, by Will D. Campbell (Providence House).
• Shugah and Doops, by Will D. Campbell (Providence House).
• Next to Last Chance, by Louisa Dixon (Genesis Press).
• Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell, by Ellen Douglas (Algonquin).
• Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading, edited by David Galef (Wayne State University Press).
• Turning Japanese, by David Galef (Permanent Press).
• Flights of Angels: Stories, by Ellen Gilchrist (Little, Brown).
• Jackson: The Good Life, by Walt Grayson (Towery).
• The Street Lawyer, fiction by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Remember Me, Cowboy, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Fire, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Shakespeare’s Christmas, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Man, Nature and the Infinite: Random Thoughts and Impressions from the Journals, Interviews, Letters, Speeches, and Notebooks of Jay Higginbotham, 1961-1997, by Jay Higginbotham (Lighthouse Books).
• Newton’s Cannon, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• Auqustus Baldwin Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes' Completed, by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, edited by David Rachels (University of Georgia Press).
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop , by Margaree King Mitchell (Aladdin).
• Landscapes of the Heart: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Spencer (Random House).
• The Last Gentleman, by Walker Percy (Modern Library).
• Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story, by Charles Evers (John Wiley & Sons).
• The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood , by Willie Morris (Random House).
• A Corpse by Any Other Name: A Stokes Moran Mystery , by Neil McGaughey (Scribner).
• So There You Are: The Selected Prose of Glenn Brown, Journalist, by Glenn Brown, edited by Paul Ruffin (Texas Review Press).
• Where Water Begins: New Poems and Prose, by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• Beach Walks, by George Thatcher (Quail Ridge Press).
• African American Inventors, by Otha Richard Sullivan (Wiley).
• Eudora Welty: Complete Novels, by Eudora Welty, edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling (Library of America).
• Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays, and Memoir, by Eudora Welty, edited by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling (Library of America).
• Safari West: Poems, by John Alfred Williams (Hochelago).
• Not About Nightingales, by Tennessee Williams, edited by Allean Hale (New Directions).
• Religion and the American Civil War, edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson (Oxford University Press).
• The New Regionalism: Essays and Commentaries, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson (University Press of Mississippi).
• Black Boy and Native Son, by Richard Wright, (reprint editions by Harperperennial Library).
• Haiku: This Other World, by Richard Wright, edited by Yoshinobu Hakatuni and Robert L. Tener (Arcade).
• Veneer: Stories, by Steve Yarbrough (University of Missouri Press).
• Breaking Through to the Next Level, by Zig Ziglar (Honor Books).
• Confessions of a Grieving Christian, by Zig Ziglar (Thomas Nelson).
• What I Learned on the Way to the Top, by Zig Ziglar (Honor Books).
• Ain’t No Spring Chicken: Selected Poems, by Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (Voice Foundation).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the Book News title list for 1998.

October 15: Impossible Marriage, by Beth Henley, opens on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre in New York, starring Holly Hunter and directed by Stephen Wadsworth.

Premiere of The Gingerbread Man, directed by Robert Altman, story by John Grisham.

Premiere of Come West with Me, directed by Marleen Gorris, screenplay by Beth Henley based on her play Abundance.

June 18: Frank Trippett dies.

August 24: Jerry Clower dies following heart bypass surgery in Jackson, Mississippi.

November 30: Margaret Walker Alexander dies of cancer in Chicago.

1999

• Comrades, Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Brothers, Sons, Pals, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, nonfiction by Frederick Barthelme and Steven Barthelme (Houghton Mifflin).
• trip, text by Frederick Barthelme, photographs by Susan Lipper (powerHouse).
• Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays in Art and Activism, by Rick Bass (Milkweed).
• Of Home and Family: Art in Nineteenth Century Mississippi, by Patti Carr Black (Mississippi Museum of Art).
• The Southern Writers Quiz Book, by Patti Carr Black (University Press of Mississippi).
• The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen (University Press of Mississippi).
• Outside Chance, by Louisa Dixon (Genesis Press).
• Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be, by Myrlie Evers-Williams and Melinda Blau (Little, Brown).
• The Testament, by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Them Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Bantam).
• Familiar Valentine, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Christmas, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• A Fool and His Honey, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Hannibal, by Thomas Harris (Delacorte Press).
• The Quiet Game, by Greg Iles (Dutton).
• A Calculus of Angels, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values for African American Families, by Joyce A. Ladner (John Wiley & Sons).
• My Cat Spit McGee, by Willie Morris (Random House).
• Frontier Children, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (University of Oklahoma Press).
• The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921, by Walter F. Pratt, Jr. (University of South Carolina Press).
• Pilgrims: Sinners, Saints, and Prophets, by Marty Stuart (Rutledge Hill Press).
• Little Cliff and the Porch People, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Dial Books for Young Readers).
• Enemy Within, by Phillip Thompson (Salvo Press).
• Clifford's Blues, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Coffeehouse).
• Embryo, by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's).
• Donor, by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the Book News title list for 1999.

August 2: Willie Morris dies of a heart attack in Jackson, Mississippi.

September 21: Neil McGaughey dies in Prentiss, Mississippi.