This first volume of a multivolume set is a collection of stories and parts of novels by twentieth-century Mississippi writers about growing up in the South. Volume II (1986) contains nonfiction on the same subjects and volume III (1987), poetry. A monumental anthology in four volumes collecting fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, & drama written by authors from Mississippi, a state that has been called the cradle of storytellers. In a five-year project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, Abbott has made selections from the works of Faulkner, Welty, Williams, Percy, & Wright along with stories, essays, poems, & plays both by eminently known&by emerging writers from Mississippi. Each selection expresses the theme of Mississippi youth & childhood or its relevance to the life of the writer.