Nonfiction

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Accomplices to the Crime
Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform t...
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Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins (1884–1973)
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...
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The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas
Written by the ninth governor of Arkansas, Powell Clayton, The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas recounts...
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Larry Dell Alexander (1953–2021)
Larry Dell Alexander was a visual artist, writer, and Bible teacher best known for his elaborate pen-and-ink d...
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All the Young Men
All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South is a memoir by Ruth Coker B...
Charles Wilson Allbright (1929–2015)
Charles Wilson Allbright was one of the best-known and most widely read newspaper columnists in Arkansas. Allb...
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The American Spa
The American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas is 1982 work of history written by Dee Brown, author of the bestsellin...
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Daisy Anderson (1900?-1998)
Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
Annals of Arkansas
The Annals of Arkansas comprise four volumes of narrative and biographical histories of Arkansas, written by s...
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Katharine Susan Anthony (1877–1965)
Katharine Susan Anthony was suffragist, feminist, pacifist, socialist, and author of feminist and psychologica...
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Any Empire
Any Empire is a 2011 graphic novel by North Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Nate Powell, published by Top ...
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Jack Appleby (1907–1974)
aka: John Tate Appleby
Arkansas native John Tate (Jack) Appleby was a biographer of Englis...
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Arkansas Historical Quarterly (AHQ)
The Arkansas Historical Quarterly (AHQ) is the official publication of the Arkansas Historical Association (AH...
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Arkansas Made [Books]
The Arkansas Made books are a two-volume set researched and written by two leaders of the Arkansas Territorial...
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The Arkansas Race Riot
“The Arkansas Race Riot” is a 1920 pamphlet that constitutes a critical source of information about the El...
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Arkansas: A Guide to the State
Arkansas: A Guide to the State was a book project of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Admi...
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Morris Sheppard "Buzz" Arnold (1941–)
Morris Sheppard “Buzz” Arnold is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The U...
Alfred W. Arrington (1810–1867)
The colorful and often controversial Alfred W. Arrington was an attorney, minister, and Arkansas state legisla...
Earl Robert Babbie (1938–)
Earl Robert Babbie of Hot Springs Village (Garland and Saline counties) is an acclaimed sociologist best known...
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Back Yonder, An Ozark Chronicle
Back Yonder, An Ozark Chronicle, published in 1932, is the autobiography of Charles Wayman Hogue (1870–1965)...
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Catherine Sweazey Barker (1901–1961)
Catherine Sweazey Barker was a social worker and author who lived in Batesville (Independence County) in the 1...
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Becoming Free Indeed
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear is a 2023 memoir by Jinger Duggar Vuolo, one o...
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Bend, Don't Break
Bend, Don’t Break: A Memoir of Endurance is a book written by Frank O’Mara of Little Rock (Pulaski County)...
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The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town
Written by former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator Dale Bumpers, The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town is an ...
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Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas
Originally published in 1887, the Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas is an illustrated work by Joh...
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Douglas A. Blackmon (1964–)
Douglas A. Blackmon is an American writer and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction an...
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The Bookmaker's Daughter
The Bookmaker’s Daughter: A Memory Unbound is a memoir by Shirley Abbott, who was from Hot Springs (Garland ...
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Boom Town
Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community is a 2009 nonfiction ...
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Boy Erased
Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir Boy Erased recounts his experiences at the Memphis, Tennessee, “ex-gay” the...
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The Boys on the Tracks
Mara Leveritt’s 1999 book Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother’s Crusade to Bring Her Son’s K...
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Terri Utley Amos Britt (1961–)
Terri Britt, who was Terri Utley at the time, was named Miss Arkansas USA in 1982, going on to win the title o...