Books for the natural reader. From fascinating tales of history’s most famous Arkansans to comprehensive studies of the state’s most incredible wildlife, the University of Arkansas Press is our region’s most important publisher and a local source for readers of all backgrounds who seek a deeper understanding of the world around them. In the last four decades we’ve amassed a diverse list of titles for everyone, from generalists to specialists, that help comprise the intellectual and cultural foundations of Arkansas and its environs. Here, readers find offerings that include scholarly monographs, pictorial histories, edited collections, travel and nature guides, and literary anthologies that celebrate and investigate the best of the region.
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Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the historical record to...
Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas through 1950, 2nd edition, has been reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly by Catherine Wallack. “Arkansas Made is clearly organized, a necessity for tackling the...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman. Broadcasting the Ozarks explores the vibrant country music scene...
Susan Croce Kelly was interviewed at Ozarks Alive about her new book Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton. While Lucile was many things in her lifetime, I see one of her most notable moments as having written “The Bald Knobbers,...
The University of Arkansas Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis by Robert Cochran. Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man’s Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansas-born Charles...
Shared Secrets: The Queer World of Newbery Medalist Charles J. Finger by Elizabeth Findley Shores has won the 2023 Booker Worthen Literary Prize, presented annually for the best work by an author living in Arkansas and published in the three-year eligibility period...
Wendy J. Fox has compiled a list of fifteen small press books everybody should have on their summer reading list at Electric Lit. "Small presses," Wendy writes, have been publishing excellent work by writers who you may not know (yet). From compelling short stories to...
Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John A. Kirk, has been reviewed in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. “Kirk has produced a … sympathetic, deeply researched, and balanced account of Winthrop Rockefeller’s early life. … Kirk’s book...
Brooks Blevins, author of Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins will give two book talks in Northwest Arkansas next week. On Wednesday, August 2, Blevins will give a talk at the Fayetteville Public Library as part of the UA Press Author Spotlight from...
The University of Arkansas Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America by Kimberly Harper. Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the...
