A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying.

The autobiography of the fiction writer Eudora Welty whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction.

Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi

Richard Wright describes what it was like growing up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi.

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text.

His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood American writers.

This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985.

Black family growing up in rural Mississippi.

The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.