Salute to Women's History

Flannery O'Connor was born on the 25th of this month, eighty-three years ago. In a salute to her powerful literary legacy and the contribution of women to literature, the arts, history, and politics, UT Press is proud to spotlight our women's studies list for the month of March. Save up to 40% on these titles and others during Women's History Month. Check out the sale!

Flannery O'Connor
A Life

Jean W. Cash

In this full-length biography of the writer, Jean W. Cash draws upon extensive interviews with O’Connor’s friends, relatives, teachers, and colleagues as well as on the writer’s voluminous correspondence to provide a sensitive, balanced portrait of a fascinating woman.

Inventing Black Women
African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000 Ajuan Maria Mance

Inventing Black Women fills important gaps in our understanding of how African American women poets have resisted those conventional notions of gender and race that limit the visibility of Black female subjects.

On Harper Lee
Essays and Reflections

Edited by Alice Hall Petry

On Harper Lee is an accessible collection on one of America's most important novels and its often enigmatic creator.

Eastern Band Cherokee Women
Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches

Virginia Moore Carney

A watershed event, this book unearths three centuries of previously unknown and largely ignored speeches, letters, and other writings from Eastern Band Cherokee women.

Professional Pursuits
Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement

Catherine W. Zipf

Professional Pursuits chronicles a very significant, little-understood aspect of the development of Victorian capitalism: the integration of women into the professional workforce.

Little X
Growing Up in the Nation of Islam

Sonsyrea Tate

Sonsyrea Tate reveals, through the acute vision and engaging voice of a curious child, the practices and policies of the mysterious organization most know only through media portrayals of its controversial leaders.

John J. McLaughlin has received two awards from the Texas Institute of Letters: the Jesse Jones Award for Best Fiction and the Steven Turner Award for First Fiction. John received the honors for Run in the Fam'ly, last year's selection for the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel.

To Lift Up My Race
The Essential Writings of Samuel Robert Cassius

Edited by Edward J. Robinson

Rugby, Tennessee
Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau

Thomas Hughes

Introduction by Benita J. Howell