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WILLIE MORRIS’S OXFORD

September 9, 2022 By Lawrence Wells

2022 Mississippi Book Festival, Willie Morris panel discussion: Larry Wells, publisher of five books by Willie Morris, noted author and former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, tells how Morris helped Oxford, Mississippi evolve from Faulkner’s shadow to become a literary community in its own right. (Video by Kathleen Wickham, length16 minutes.)

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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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