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  Mississippi Writers Page

  University of Mississippi. Department of English and University of Mississippi Libraries

  This open educational resource preserves much of the original text from the Mississippi Writers Page, an online site maintained by the University of Mississippi's Department of English from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s. Focusing on writers both born and working in Mississippi, it included biographies of the writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources (including literary criticism).

  Staff from the University of Mississippi Libraries compiled the text into an open volume in 2022, but did not revise the original work.

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  Map of Mississippi Literary Landmarks

  University of Mississippi Libraries

  The original MWP site included a section called the "Mississippi Literary Landmarks", highlighting the six principal regions of Mississippi and the writers who lived and worked there.

  1. The Delta
  2. River Cities
  3. The Hill Country
  4. The Heartland
  5. The Piney Woods
  6. The Coast

  Several writers are listed more than once.

  For this incarnation, we have used the free version of Arc-GIS Online to build an interactive web map.

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  Timeline of Mississippi Writers

  University of Mississippi Libraries

  The original MWP website included an extensive timeline of Mississippi history -- from the arrival of Hernando De Soto in northeast Mississippi in 1540 through the death of civil rights activist Rev. Will D. Campbell in 2013 -- and of Mississippi writers.

  For this project, we have focused primarily on writers and and their publications using Knight Lab's open source Timeline.js

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  MWP original site files

  University of Mississippi Libraries

  The original files used to maintain the Mississippi Writers Page have been compiled into a zip folder.