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James A. Autry

James A. Autry is a former CEO of the Meredith Corporation, an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Mississippi and is a winner of the “Silver Em Award,” the journalism school’s award for a distinguished career in journalism. His first published books were books of poetry, Nights Under a Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi. In late 1991, the Kentucky Poetry Review published a special James A. Autry issue. He received considerable national attention when he was one of the poets featured on Bill Moyers’ special series, “The Power of the Word,” on PBS.

Mississippi: Nights Under A Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi

Mississippi: Nights Under A Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi

$24.95
Author: James A. Autry

AUTHOR: James A. Autry; Preface by John Mack Carter; Introduction by Willie Morris
POETRY: 77 poems, 66 black and white photos, 196 pages, 7x10 inches, paperback, ISBN 9780916242862, $24.95
BOOK LAUNCH: Des Moines, Iowa, (date to be determined), Oxford, MS (date to be determined)
PUB-DATE: Oct. 11, 2018

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Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional press established by co-publishers, Lawrence Wells and the late Dean Faulkner Wells. Most of the press's projects are generated in-house.The company is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."

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