Hundreds attend annual book conference
The 20th annual Oxford Conference for the Book was held this weekend with hundreds attending for a variety of panels, talks and book signings. (March 25, 2013, Page 1A, 10A)
Book conference features focus on kids
Oxford Conference for the Book celebrates 20 years this weekend with numerous free local events and the Young Authors Fair. (March 19, 2013, Page 1)
UM hosts 18th Annual Conference for the Book this weekend
OXFORD TOWN – Oxford’s 18th Annual Conference for the Book begins today (Thursday, March 24) on the Ole Miss campus featuring Karen Russell (pictured) and many other renowned authors. The conference collaborates with Thacker Mountain Radio at Off Square Books tonight and lasts through Saturday, March 26. Pages 9 and 11 in this week’s issue of Oxford town has participating author photos and more information about the conference. (March 24, 2011, Page 9, 11)
Oxford celebrates Arts and Literature month
With March being Arts and Literature Month, several events will highlight the two artistic endeavors. Oxford Art Crawl will be held on March 22 and Miss-I-Sippin on March 25 with the Oxford Conference for the Book from March 24-26. (March 15, 2011, Page 3)
Barry Hannah: 1942-2010
OXFORD LIVING — We invited friends, fans and students of the late Barry Hannah to share with us their memories, as the 17th Oxford Conference for the Book gets underway in Hannah’s honor. Photos of the author and a coast-to-coast collection of stories are in today’s Oxford Living. (March 5, 2010, Page 1B)
Book conference begins
University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones, author John Grisham and Square Books owner Richard Howorth paid tribute to Barry Hannah at a talk on “literary Oxford” Thursday as part of the Oxford Conference for the Book. The conference is dedicated to the late Hannah, who died Monday at age 67.Conference for the Book: Grisham to speak
John Grisham will speak as part of the Oxford Conference for the Book Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Gertrude Ford Performing Arts Center. Grisham is scheduled to talk about “Literary Oxford” and his own life as a writer here in town. He and Barry Hannah were good friends, and Barry did a memorable job moderating an OCB session years ago in Fulton Chapel when Grisham and Stephen King discussed surviving success as writers.(March 3, 2010)
Conference for the Book will go on
Remembering Barry: Hannah, 67, dies Monday
To the world he was an author but for many in Oxford he was something more: friend and teacher, a fisherman and a dad. Writer Barry Hannah died on Monday afternoon of natural causes, according to the Lafayette County coroner, at his home in Oxford. It was just weeks shy of his 68th birthday and days before his work and life were to be honored at the 17th annual Oxford Conference on the Book.
Brandon Niemeyer contributed to this report. (March 2, 2010, Page 1)
Author Barry Hannah dies
Oxford lost one of its best-known writers Monday afternoon. Barry Hannah died just days before this year’s Oxford Conference for the Book, set to be dedicated to him and his work. He would have been 68 years old next month. Hannah was the author of eight novels and several collections of short stories, and was the director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Mississippi.
The family will have a private funeral and graveside service. A public memorial service is planned for Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at Fulton Chapel on the University of Mississippi campus. Waller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
