Book Signing: Bill Ferris November 7, 2009

William Reynolds Ferris (born February 5, 1942 in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is an American author and scholar and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He co-founded, with Judy Peiser, the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee and, with Charles Reagan Wilson, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He and Wilson are co-editors of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He will be at the Center for Southern Folklore to sign his book "You Live and Learn. Then You Die and Forget It All: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules and Men."