Will D. Campbell - Writings

Writings

This list contains every, or nearly every, book-length work authored primarily by Campbell, but it makes no attempt to list shorter works.

• Race and the Renewal of the Church (1962)
• Up to Our Steeples in Politics (1970, reprint 2005) (with James Y. Holloway)
• The Failure and the Hope: Essays of Southern Churchmen (1972, reprint 2005) (edited with James Y. Holloway)
• ... and the criminals with him ..." Lk 23:33: A first-person book about prisons (1972)
• Brother to a Dragonfly (1977): part autobiography, part elegy for Campbell's brother, part oral history of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Glad River (1982): novel
• Cecelia's Sin (1983): historical novel set among the early Baptists
• The Lord's Prayer for Our Time (1983) (with Will McBride and Bonnie Campbell)
• Forty Acres and a Goat (1986): autobiography (40 acres is about 16 hectares)
• The Convention: A Parable (1988): allegory based on the conflict between moderates and fundamentalists within the Southern Baptist Convention
• Covenant: Faces, Voices, Places (1989) (with photographs by Al Clayton)
• Chester and Chun Ling (1989): children's book, illustrated by Jim Hsieh
• Providence (1992, reprint 2002)
• The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School (1995, reprint 2002): account of racial integration at Mercer University
• "Little Red Riding: The Babtist Red-headed Girl" (1996, reprinted 2001): children's book, illustrated by Picasso
• "Elvis Presley as Redneck" (1995): address delivered at First Elvis Presley Symposium, University of Mississippi
• The Pear Tree That Bloomed in the Fall (1996): children's book, illustrated by Elaine Kernea
• And Also With You: Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma (1997): a tribute to the Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray, whom Campbell calls one of his heroes
• Bluebirds Always Come on Sunday (1997)
• Shugah and Doops (1997)
• Soul Among Lions: Musings of a Bootleg Preacher (1999)
• Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House (2003): a biography of the man who, in 1967, was elected Mississippi's first black state legislator since Reconstruction
• "Writings on Reconciliation and Resistance" (2010)
• "Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell" (2010)
• "And the Criminals With Him: Essays in Honor of Will D. Campbell and the Reconciled" Edited by Will D. Campbell and Richard C. Goode. (2012)