panel, the will make their way to the author s ten next door to that and will be happy to personalize and sign the books for you. our moderator is timis bell. during his 30-plus years as a journalist his has serve as writer, photographer, photo editor, pain designer, and shreddographyer. he researches and writes and photographs books on the civil war, civil rights history, and the gulf coast in 2007 he want inducted be usm communication and journalism hall of fame. i d like to thank all of you for coming. i was going to start the session off with the quote from another mississippi author, shelby foote. any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. the civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. it s necessary if you re going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. the crossroads of our being and a hell of a cros
minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. if you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv.org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival.com. first here s more book tvs visit to jackson last year. when i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a.m. i have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a national historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. she was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. she studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. that was the form she most value. she had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. there is oneñr writers beginning to
mississippi author, shelby foote. any understand offering this nation has to be based on an noning of the civil war. the civil war deoffendded us as what we are and it opened us to what we game, good and bad. it s necessary if you re going to understand the american character of the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the 19th 19th century. the crossroads of our being and a hell of a crossroads. i d like to crow introduce my kole legs. on the far right is timothy smith. mike mallard, justin solonick, and tom parson and i ll pitch it to tim. it s beautiful to be here with you today. i think what we ll do first is tell you a little bit about ourselves and introduce ourselves. my name is tim smith. i live in tennessee. i teach at the university of tennessee at martin. and mississippian at heart, though. a native mississippian, grew up in carrollton and went to ol mississippi misstate, got degrees from both somehow. egg bowl day i m a winner either way. my