Death of Foote's mother and Percy's battle with cancer, their letters are full of sly humor, good-natured ribbing, and a large dose of self-mockery.

Paul Elie tells these writers' stories as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life.

Alice, the keeper of the Lee family history, shared the stories of their family. The Mockingbird Next Door is the story of Mills’s friendship with the Lee sisters.

Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana.

This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln.

With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker