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Mississippi
Great Books List by Thomas Palakeel

Light in August
by William Faulkner
Native Son
by Richard Wright
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Complete Novels
by Eudora Welty
The Civil War: A Narrative
by Shelby Foote
A Piece of My Heart
by Richard Ford
Dirty Work
by Larry Brown
Airships
by Barry Hannah
Music of the Swamps
by Lewis Nordan
The Rock Cried Out
by Ellen Douglas

The new book, TOURING LITERARY MISSISSIPPI
leads tourists to the right spots.
By taking the literary traveler on seven preplanned
tours—through the Delta, along Highway 61, to the heart of
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha Country, to sites near Interstate
55 and the Natchez Trace, to the piney woods of East and
South Mississippi, and along the sun-struck Gulf Coast—this
book captures the phenomenal abundance and diversity of
Mississippi literature.
More than a guidebook, the book also gives explicit
directions to writers’ homes and other literary sites. It
includes capsule biographies and well over a hundred
photographs of writers, their residences, and their literary
environments.
“This book is intended to be a helpful guide for travelers
who want to see homes and other sites,” the authors write
in their preface. “With well over a hundred pictures, it is
also designed for the armchair tourist.”
The sheer number of writers discovered, recovered, and
claimed by Mississippi will astonish travelers both from
within and from without the state. Authors include not
only such major figures in the pantheon of American
literature as Faulkner, Welty, Tennessee Williams, and
Richard Wright but also reclaim the less well-known.
As the locations bring to life the connection of ordinary
rituals with the stuff of fiction, poetry, and memoir, these
hands-on tours make evident the special cross-pollination of
writer and community in Mississippi.
Patti Carr Black is the author of ART IN MISSISSIPPI, 1720-
1980 and THE SOUTHERN WRITERS QUIZ BOOK (both
published by the University Press of Mississippi). Marion
Barnwell, a fiction writer and an assistant professor of
English at Delta State University, compiled and edited A
PLACE CALLED MISSISSIPPI (University Press of Mississippi)