July 9, 1999

Mississippi Press Releases 'Southern Writers Quiz Book'; Journals Print Unpublished Work by William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams's Last Short Story

Gardening guides, cat compendiums, and baseball books have long been the financial backbone of university-press publishing. Now the University Press of Mississippi has added another vertebra to its spine: trivia.

The press has just published the Southern Writers Quiz Book, by Patti Carr Black, with illustrations by Patti Henson. Don't expect to find a test prep for a course on Southern literature, though. This