The Essential Memphis Library index
Elvis Presley makes the top 21 of “The Essential Memphis” Library twice. Presley is shown here during a press conference on March 1, 1960 in Friedberg, Germany as he was discharged after two years of military service. (Walter Lindlar/AP Photo file)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life.
If you wanted to build a home library of things relevant to Memphis history and culture, what should be in it? What books, movies, albums, songs, art prints, etc.?
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