W. Ralph Eubanks is author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, which will be released March 16, 2021 by Timber Press/Workman Publishing. He is also the author of Ever is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippis Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley named Ever is a Long Time as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. Novelist Richard Ford said The House at the End of the Road "enacts the liberating magic of literature: it finds its truth in between conventional wisdom and sociological presumption, in between lies and faulty history." Eubanks has contributed articles to The Washington Post Outlook and Style sections, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, and National Public Radio. He is a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship and is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. Eubanks lives in Washington, D.C., and is a visiting scholar of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi.
