Mississippi: An American Journey

Anthony Walton (born 1960) is an American poet and nonfiction writer raised in Illinois by parents who migrated from Mississippi. He is best known for his memoir Mississippi: An American Journey (1997), the bestselling Brothers in Arms (2004, co-authored with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and recent essays The End of Respectability (2024), along with poetry chapbook Cricket Weather (1995) and co-edited poetry anthologies; he received the 1998 Whiting Award for Nonfiction. Walton is a professor and writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Maine.