New York, NY: University Press of Mississippi (2002)

Fine First Edition. Signed on title page.

A tale of a young man discovering himself, Red Midnight is a haunting evocation of Mississippi during the years after World War II.

As the acclaimed author of five novels published in the 1940s and 1950s, Thomas Hal Phillips was in the last wave of the Southern Literary Renaissance. He went on to achieve success as a screenwriter in Hollywood, working extensively with filmmaker Robert Altman.

In Red Midnight, after a forty-year absence, Phillips returns masterfully to fiction. Thomas Hal Phillips received the O. Henry award and two Guggenheim fellowships. He collaborated in writing the screenplays of Robert Altman's Nashville and Thieves Like Us. Two of his novels, The Loved and the Unloved and Kangaroo Hollow, are available from University Press of Mississippi. He lives in Kossuth, Miss.