1970

• The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Doubleday).
• Prophets for a Day, poems by Margaret Walker Alexander (Broadside Press).
• Rangoon, short stories by Frederick Barthelme.
• Up to Our Steeples in Politics, by Will D. Campbell and James Y. Holloway (Paulist Press).
• Interstate, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• Christmas Night in the Quarters, by Irwin Russell (Mississippi Historical Society).
• Let Not Your Hart, by James Seay (Wesleyan University Press).
• Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, edited by Alfreda M. Duster (University of Chicago Press).
• Losing Battles, a novel by Eudora Welty (Random House).
• A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car, a poem by Eudora Welty (Albondocani Press).
• The Most Native of Sons: A Biography of Richard Wright, by John Alfred Williams (Doubleday).
• The King God Didn't Save: Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., by John Alfred Williams (Coward).
• Dragon Counting, A Book of Plays, by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).

December 3: I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, by Tennessee Williams, were televised together under the title Dragon Country by New York Television Theatre.

Jerry Clower released his first comedy album, Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi Talkin’, through MCA Records.

Eudora Welty received an Edward McDowell Medal, a Christopher Book Award for One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression; A Snapshot, and was nominated for a National Book Award for Losing Battles.

1971

• Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Penguin).
• Constructing Classroom Tests in Music, by Ben E. Bailey (Whitehall).
• War and War, a novel by Frederick Barthelme.
• Archaeological Survey in the Tombigbee River Drainage Area, May- June, 1970, by Samuel O. McGahey; edited by Charlotte Capers and Elbert Hilliard (Mississippi Department of Archives and History).
• A Neo-Socratic Dialogue on the Reluctant Empire, by Borden Deal (Outlaw Press).
• Tomorrow’s Tomorrow: The Black Woman, by Joyce A. Ladner (Doubleday).
• Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood, by Willie Morris (Harper).
• Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town, by Willie Morris (Harper).
• Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a
  Time Near the End of the World, a novel by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus)
• One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression; A Snapshot Album, illustrated with photographs by Eudora Welty (Random House).
• The Wintering, by Joan Williams (Harcourt, Brace, & World)
• The Man Who Lived Underground, a novella by Richard Wright (Aubier-Flammarion).

Richard Ford elected to University of Michigan Society of Fellows (through 1974)

1972

• Dialect Tales and Suwanee River Tales, facsimile reprint editions, by Sherwood Bonner (Books for Libraries Press).
• Geronimo Rex, a novel by Barry Hannah (Viking).
• Brother Holyfield: A Novel, by Jay Higginbotham (Thomas-Hull).
• Court Martial: A Black Man in America, by John F. Marszalek (Scribner).
• The Smell of Matches, poems by John Stone (Louisiana State University Press).
• The Optimist's Daughter, a novel by Eudora Welty (Random House).
• Captain Blackman, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Doubleday).
• What the Negro Wants, contributor Richard Wright, editors Hiroshi Nagase and Tsutomu Kanashiki (Kaitakusha).

Tennessee Williams's play Small Craft Warnings produced off-Broadway.

Premiere of the film Tomorrow, based on the short story by William Faulkner.

Willie Morris receives the Steck-Vaughn Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Good Old oy: A Delta Boyhood.

Eudora Welty receives a Gold Medal for fiction writing from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1973

• October Journey, poems by Margaret Walker Alexander (Broadside Press).
• General Ike: Abeline to Berlin, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Harper & Row).
• The Winner, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• Apostles of Light, by Ellen Douglas (Houghton).
• Flags in the Dust, a novel by William Faulkner; edited by Douglas Day. Previously published in 1929 in a cut version as Sartoris (Random House).
• Nightwatchmen, a novel by Barry Hannah (Viking).
• The Death of White Sociology, edited by Joyce A. Ladner (Random House).
• The Last of the Southern Girls, a novel by Willie Morris (Knopf).
• Forever Island, by Patrick D. Smith (Norton).
• Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing, by John Alfred Williams (Doubleday).
• Small Craft Warnings, a play by Tennessee Williams (Secker & Warburg).

Beth Henley's first play, Am I Blue, produced in Dallas at Southern Methodist University's Margo Jones Theatre.

Tennessee Williams's play Out Cry produced on Broadway.

Eudora Welty receives a Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Optimist's Daughter.

1974

• A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker, by Margaret Walker Alexander (Howard University).
• ...The Other Room, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox, history by Shelby Foote (Random House).
• A Voyage to Dauphin Island in 1720: The Journal of Bertet de la Clue, translated by Jay Higginbotham (Colonial Books).
• Water Tables, by James Seay (Wesleyan University Press).
• The First Horsemen, by Frank Trippett (Time-Life).
• Eight Moral Ladies Possessed, fiction by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).

Mildred D. Taylor receives the Council on Interracial Books for Children Award for her book Song of the Trees, which will be published by Dial Books in 1975.

1975

• Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Doubleday).
• Ain't God Good!, by Jerry Clower (Word Books)
• Black Sunday, by Thomas Harris
• Mr. Death: Four Stories, by Anne Moody (Harper & Row).
• The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other, nonfiction by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus).
• Song of the Trees, by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial).
• Child Ellen, by Frank Trippett (Prentice-Hall).
• Mothersill and the Foxes, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Doubleday).
• Minorities in the City, by John Alfred Williams (Harper).
• Memoirs, by Tennessee Williams (Doubleday).
• Moise and the World of Reason, fiction by Tennessee Williams (Simon & Schuster).
• A Southern Album: Recollections of Some People and Places and Times Gone By, by Willie Morris with Irwin Glusker (Oxmoor).
• A Niggered Amen: Poems, by Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (Solo Press).
• Synergy D.C. Anthology, edited by Ahmos Zu-Bolton II and E. Ethelbert Miller (Energy BlackSouth Press).

Tennessee Williams's play The Red Devil Battery Sign produced in Boston.

December 24: Murry C. Falkner dies in Mobile, Alabama. He is buried in Oxford, Mississippi.

1976

• Bluegrass, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• The Complete Book of Rockcrafting, by Linda Peavy and Jere Day (Drake).
• Mississippi Poets, nonfiction by Paul Ruffin (Mississippi Library Commission).
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial).
• The Junior Bachelor Society, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Doubleday).
• Farthing's Fortunes, by Richard Wright (Atheneum).

Tennessee Williams's play This Is (An Entertainment) produced in San Francisco.

1977

• Brother to a Dragonfly, by Will D. Campbell (Seabury Press).
• Legend of the Bluegrass, by Borden Deal (under the pseudonym "Leigh Borden") (Doubleday).
• Selected Letters of William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Random House).
• Mayday, a story by William Faulkner (University of Notre Dame Press).
• Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak, a memoir by Malcolm Franklin (The Society for the Study of Traditional Culture).
• Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711, by Jay Higginbotham (Museum of the City of Mobile).
• Mixed Families: Adopting Across Racial Boundaries, by Joyce A. Ladner (Doubleday).
• A Black Businessman in White Mississippi, 1866-1974 , by John F. Marszalek and Sadye Wier (University Press of Mississippi).
• Have a Healthy Baby: Doctor Recommended Nutritional Guide & Menus for Before, During and After Your Baby Is Born, by Linda Peavy (Drake).
• Lancelot, a novel by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus).
• Androgyne, Mon Amour, poetry by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Letters to Donald Windham, by Tennessee Williams (Holt, Rinehart).
• American Hunger, autobiography by Richard Wright (Harper).

Richard Ford awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1977-78.

Lewis Nordan receives the John Gould Fletcher Award for fiction from the University of Arkansas for his short story “Rat Song.”

Mildred D. Taylor receives the Newberry Award from the American Library Association for her book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976).

The first of George Thatcher’s newspaper column “Scenes from the Beach” was published in the Biloxi, Mississippi, Sun-Herald newspaper.

Tennessee Williams’ play Vieux Carre produced on Broadway.

Thomas Harris’ novel Black Sunday adapted for film by director John Frankenheimer (Paramount).

January 30: Malcolm Franklin dies. He is buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Oxford, in the same burial plot as his mother and step-father, William Faulkner.

1978

• Let the Hammer Down!, by Jerry Clower (Word Books)
• Adventure, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• September, September, a novel by Shelby Foote (Random House).
• Airships, short stories by Barry Hannah (Knopf).
• The Muppet Show Book, by Jim Henson (Abrams).
• James Jones: A Friendship, by Willie Morris (Doubleday).
• Canyon Cookery: A Gathering of Recipes and Recollections from Montana’s Scenic Bridger Canyon, by Linda Peavy (Artcraft).
• Angel City, by Patrick D. Smith (Valkyrie Press).
• The Eye of the Story, essays and reviews by Eudora Welty (Random House).
• The Richard Wright Reader, edited by Ellen Wright and Michel Fabre (Harper).
• Where I Live, by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).

1979

• The Rock Cried Out, by Ellen Douglas (Harcourt).
• Uncollected Stories, by William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner (Random House).
• The Land Surveyor’s Daughter: Poems, by Ellen Gilchrist (Lost Roads).
• Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky, edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (University Press of Virginia).
• William Faulkner: A Perspective from the Brodsky Collection, by Robert W. Hamblin and Louis Daniel Brodsky (Southeast Missouri State University).
• The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861-1866, edited by John F. Marszalek (Louisiana State University Press).
• The Working Mother's Complete Handbook, by Gloria Norris (Dutton).
• The Literary Manuscripts of Harold Frederic: A Catalogue, by Noel Polk (Garland).
• Privacy in Britain, by Walter F. Pratt, Jr. (Bucknell University Press).
• The Texas Anthology, edited by Paul Ruffin and Gene Arnold Rister (Sam Houston State University Press).
• Allapattah, by Patrick D. Smith (Manor Books).
• The Two-Character Play, by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• Vieux Carre, a play by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).
• The Life and Work of Richard Wright, edited by David Ray and Robert M. Farnsworth (University of Missouri).

Beth Henley's play Crimes of the Heart produced in Louisville, Kentucky, by Actors Theatre.

January 17: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer by Tennessee Williams opens off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre in New York. It performs only 36 times.

Richard Ford receives a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for 1979-80.