Southern Illinois University Press

  • Willie’s Time

    To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before…

    $22.95
  • Winter Amnesties

    Winter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: “One must somehow find a way of loving…

    $18.95
  • With Lincoln in the White House

    From the time of Lincoln’s nomination for the presidency until his assassination, John G. Nicolay served as the Civil War president’s chief personal secretary. Nicolay became an intimate of Lincoln…

    $28.00
  • With Pen and Voice

    “Owoman, woman! upon you I call; for upon your exertions almost entirely depends whether the rising generation shall be any thing more than we have been or not. Owoman, woman!…

    $30.00
  • With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 7

    This is the seventh volume of the daily record, over the last four years of Walt Whitman’s life, of his conversations with his young friend and literary executor Horace Traubel.Traubel…

    $44.00
  • Woman from Spillertown

    Kathryn Kish Sklar calls this work “a major contribution to our historical understanding of the role of women in organizing American miners in the twentieth century.”Agnes Burns Wieck was a…

    $20.00
  • Women Writing the Academy

    Women Writing the Academy is based on an extensive interview study by Gesa E. Kirsch that investigates how women in different academic disciplines perceive and describe their experiences as writers…

    $35.00
  • Words at Play

    In this encompassing and accessible introduction to dramaturgy, Felicia Hardison Londré promotes the dramaturgical essay as both an art form and as a method for improving creative writing skills. Words…

    $32.00
  • Words at Play

    In this encompassing and accessible introduction to dramaturgy, Felicia Hardison Londré promotes the dramaturgical essay as both an art form and as a method for improving creative writing skills. Words…

    $55.00
  • Works about John Dewey 1886-1995

    Although she has devised a new format for this bibliography, Barbara Levine has included most of the materials published in the two editions of the Checklist of Writings about John…

    $34.00
  • Wright Studies, Volume Two

    As series editor Narciso G. Menocal points out in his preface to Wright Studies Volume One: Taliesin 1911–1914, each volume, focusing on a different subject, is envisioned as a “forum…

    $50.00
  • Writing Groups

    Drawing upon previously unpublished archival materials as well as historical accounts, Gere traces the history of writing groups in America, from their origins over a century ago to their recent…

    $35.00