Day: July 20, 2009

Bob Zellner’s Wrong Side of Murder Creek Wins Lillian Smith Book Award

The Southern Regional Council in conjunction with the University of Georgia Libraries recently named NewSouth author Bob Zellner a recipient of the 2009 Lillian Smith Book Award for his civil rights memoir The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement …

July 20, 2009 No Comments

NewSouth Books to Publish Adventures of Tom Sawyer for National Endowment for the Arts’ Alabama Big Read

It doesn’t happen often, according to Molly Thomas-Hicks at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), that a regionally based publishing house is selected to publish a work for its Big Read program. So NewSouth Books was especially honored to learn that it had been named to publish The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the 2010 Alabama Big Read …

July 20, 2009 No Comments