About the Author John Griffin Jones is a trial lawyer, author, and father. He is editor of Mississippi Writers Talking and Mississippi Writers Talking II and coeditor of Lines Were Drawn: Remembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Product Description Enjoy these literary conversations with some of the foremost authors writing in America today. Though writing is what they do best, talking about literature is an act that the Mississippi writers included here do marvelously well. This is the second of two volumes of interviews with some of the state's prizewinning writers. This book shows that Mississippi continues to flourish with authors of importance and acclaim. Included in this volume are Jones's informal conversations with Walker Percy, Margaret Walker, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris, Turner Cassity, and James Whitehead. This book provides new insights into understanding the views, the works, and the craft of principal American authors who are also Mississippians. They speak with candor about themselves and tell of the urges that brought them to write the books and stories for which they are best known. Book Description Interviews with Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Whitehead, and Turner Cassity