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Photographer H.C. Porter speaks during a panel on Art in Mississippi during the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival on the grounds of the State Capitol in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.

W. Ralph Eubanks speaks, left, during a panel on the legacy of Eudora Welty during the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival on the grounds of the State Capitol in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017. Ebony Lumumba is at the right.

Cartoonist Marshall Ramsey, right, listens to writer Sid Salter speak on a panel entitled “Things Like The Truth “ during the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival on the grounds of the State Capitol in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.

Festival goers browse on of the book sellers tents at the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival on the grounds of the State Capitol in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.

Panelists Greg Iles, left, Jerry Mitchell, center, and Stanley Nelson, listen to a question from the audience during the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.

Craig Gill, right, listens to Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson during panel on the Mississippi Encyclopedia during the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.

Pulizer Prize winning novelist Richard Ford speaks at the Third Annual Mississippi Book Festival on the grounds of the State Capitol in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.

Holly Lange, executive director of the Mississippi Book Festival speaks during the opening ceremony in the State Capitol in Jackson, MS August 19, 2017.