Mississippians
- Jesmyn Ward
- Tom Franklin
- Larry Brown
- Margaret Walker
- Ellen Gilchrist
![display case containing publications by Jesmyn Ward and Tom Franklin](https://exhibit-production-digitalcommons.s3.amazonaws.com/images/IMG_6213.width-500.jpg)
Jesmyn Ward and Tom Franklin
Featured items, left to right:
- Sing, Unburied, Sing: a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Scribner (2017)
- Salvage the Bones: a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Bloomsbury (2011).
- Notebook kept by Tom Franklin while writing Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter / Tom Franklin. Harper Perennial, UM Common Read Edition (2012).
![display case containing A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown with a hand drawn map.](https://exhibit-production-digitalcommons.s3.amazonaws.com/images/IMG_6214.width-500.jpg)
Larry Brown
Featured items, left to right:
- A Miracle of Catfish / Larry Brown. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2007).
- Hand-drawn map including “Cortez’s Place,” “Jimmy’s daddy’s trailer,” and “cotton fields”
![display case containing publications by Margaret Walker (Jubilee) and Ellen Gilchrist (Net of Jewels).](https://exhibit-production-digitalcommons.s3.amazonaws.com/images/IMG_6215.width-500.jpg)
Margaret Walker and Ellen Gilchrist
Featured items, left to right:
- Jubilee / Margaret Walker. Houghton Mifflin (1966).
- Promotional materials for Jubilee
- Net of Jewels / Ellen Gilchrist. Little Brown and Co. (1992).
- Letter from Ellen Gilchrist to Willie Morris. 19 February 1991.