In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The Werewolf," and the macabre story of "The Hound." This school edition includes an Introduction by Willie Morris, illustrated biography of William Faulkner, with study guide including discussion questions, vocabulary lists and suggested class projects, paperback binding, 84 pages. Recommended for middle school students. "Dean Faulkner Wells describes Rowan Oak and the Pappy of her childhood with a rare eye and with the Faulkner care and genius for words, and with the emotion of love." (American Bookseller)

The Ghosts of Rowan Oak: School Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Willie Morris

Arts & Literature

Sanctuary Editions

In DINNER AT THE MANSION, Elise Winter, wife of former Governor William Winter, tells how she set out to make the venerable mansion, built in 1842, both a home for her family and a center for the cultural life of the state. By bringing performing artists, writers, statesmen and successful business executives to the mansion, often as overnight guests, Mrs. Winter made the governor's mansion a showcase for Mississippi. Includes menus and recipes; conversations with distinguished guests; 160 pages; cloth bound, 6 x 9 inch page trim, illustrated with 32 photos; 56 recipes; co-writer, Frank E. Smith; Introduction by Willie Morris.("Dinner at the Mansion reveals finally...the most hard-earned quality of any individual, or any society. That quality, we pray, is civilization."--Willie Morris)

Dinner at the Mansion

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Winter, Elise V.

Regional & International

A collection of 21 distinguished biographical essays by one of America's most revered authors; arranged chronologically as Willie Morris moved across America from New York City to Bridgehampton, in eastern Long Island, to Washington, D.C., as journalist in residence at the Washington Star newspaper; and finally, his return in 1980 to his native Mississippi to serve as writer in residence at Ole Miss.

Terrains of the Heart: And Other Essays On Home

Morris, Willie

Historical

Willie Morris's collection of sports stories, Always Stand In Against The Curve, is a book for those of us lucky enough to have shot baskets under a driveway or shagged fly balls in open fields until it was too dark to see the hoop or the ball against the sky. In Morris's soulful point of view, sports is about growing up in America, radio broadcasts of the Brooklyn Dodgers in a Mississippi country store, girls with double names, practical jokes, small town coaches, the hold the past has on us, about running effortlessly in the sun. The novella, "The Fumble," is a sports classic about high school football in the Deep South. Set in the 1950s it describes a confrontation of mythic proportions between a small town football team from the "Delta" and the omnipotent Central High Tigers of Jackson, Mississippi. Each of the six autobiographical essays in this book form chapters of a Great American boyhood, beginning with Morris's farewells to high school and to American legion baseball, a road trip to Notre Dame with "Bevo," the University of Texas longhorn steer mascot, Rhodes scholars playing basketball in England, a writers-and-artists softball game in East Hampton, New York, in which the author admits he is too old to run the bases, and finally a journey back to Austin, Texas, in search of the past. To Willie Morris, sports are a gentle center in the eye of the storm, a clean world of instinct and action where one can work out the bruises of living, where the rituals of youth teach valuable lessons about winning and losing, about heroes and disillusionment, about finding a way to face the world.

Always Stand In Against The Curve: And Other Sports Stories

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote Good Old Boy when his son David, age ten, asked, What was it like to grow up in the South? Morris s response turned into a timeless story of growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends and playing practical jokes and having adventures. Good Old Boy is supplemental reading at many schools for sixth through ninth grade.

Professionals & Academics

James Meredith: Breaking the Barrier is an illustrated collection of essays commemorating the 60th anniversary of James Meredith's historic 1962 enrollment at the University of Mississippi. Ten former students, journalists, historians and eye-witnesses tell the story of James Meredith's turbulent but successful path to become the state's first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi. In Breaking the Barrier James Meredith describes his three-year campaign to break the color barrier at the University of Mississippi and his successful graduation in 1963. Former Washington Post reporter Dorothy Gilliam describes the legal challenges Meredith overcame. Historian William Doyle reveals how Meredith planned and carried out a military-style campaign to secure admission to the university. Former students Sidna Brower Mitchell and Curtis Wilkie, eye-witnesses at the 1962 campus riot, recount the violence they saw that night. Former MP lieutenant Henry Gallagher commanded the military security detail which escorted James Meredith to his classes. Journalism professor Marquita Smith records Mississippi African Americans' recollections of Meredith's impact. Editor Kathleen Wickham tells the tragic story of French reporter Paul Guihard, the only reporter to be killed during the Civil Rights era. Former governor William Winter describes how Mississippi joined the American mainstream and recognized the rights of all its citizens. Alumnus Jesse Holland credits Meredith for paving the way for generations of African Americans students.

James Meredith: Breaking the Barrier

History

Americas

Fair Youth

Literature & Fiction

Wells, Lawrence

Genre Fiction

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