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.