UA Press Author Spotlight: Brooks Blevins

"Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins"

Ozarks historian Brooks Blevins entertains and educates about the place and the people that defy easy categorization and (often unflattering) stereotype.

University of Arkansas Press spotlight author, Brooks Blevins, will discuss his most recent book, "Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins". Part historical and part journalistic, these essays combine the scholarly sensibilities of a respected historian with the insights of someone raised in rural hill country. 

Brooks Blevins has spent his life studying and writing about the people of his native regions—the South and the Ozarks. He has been in the vanguard of a new and vibrant Ozarks Studies movement that has worked to refract the stories of Ozarkers through a more realistic and less exotic lens. Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He published with the University of Illinois Press his capstone work—three volumes constituting the definitive history of the Ozarks. He is also the author or editor of ten other books, including Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State.

A book signing will follow the author's presentation.
Books will be available for purchase at the event.

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