Ferris, William R. (Personal Name)

His Mississippi Black folklore, 1971: t.p. (William R. Ferris, Jr.)

His Local color, c1983: t.p. (William Ferris) CIP data sheet (b. 2/5/42)

His Ray Lum, mule trader, c1977: p. 1 (Bill Ferris) p. 5 (associate professor of American and Afro-American studies, Yale University; co-director of the Center for Southern Folklore) p. 7 (Ferris, William)

UNC College of Arts & Sciences WWW site, June 10, 2016 (William R. Ferris; professor of history and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MA, Northwestern University, English (1965); MA University of Pennsylvania, Folklore (1967); PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Folklore (1969)) http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/william-ferris/

University of Mississippi Museum profile page, 6 July 2017 (Dr. William R. Ferris (1942-); born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942; considered one of the foremost American authors and scholars of Southern art)

Wikipedia, August 13, 2019 (William R. Ferris; William Reynolds Ferris; born February 5, 1942, Vicksburg, Mississippi; American author and scholar; co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee; founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; co-editor of The encyclopedia of Southern culture; chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997-2001; joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history, and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore)