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.