Authors to Know

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~A~

• Conrad Aiken
• Jessica Alexander
• Jodi Lynn Anderson
• Raymond Andrews
• Eliza Frances Andrews
• Tina McElroy Ansa
• Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith) 

~B~

• Mignon Ballard
• Toni Cade Bambara
• Coleman Barks
• Margaret Anne Barnes
• Vereen Bell
• John Berendt
• Steve Berry
• Michael Bishop
• Amy Blackmarr
• Douglas A. Blackmon
• Roy Blount, Jr.
• Paul Darcy Boles
• Adrienne Bond
• David Bottoms
• Elias Boudinot
• Edgar Bowers
• Valerie Boyd
• Taylor Branch
• Jeanne Braselton
• James Braziel
• Van K. Brock
• Olive Ann Burns
• Kathryn Stripling Byer
• Rudolph P. Byrd

~C~

• Erskine Caldwell
• Virginia Spencer Carr
• Jimmy Carter
• Turner Cassity
• Brainard Cheney
• Thomas Holley Chivers
• Erskine Clarke
• Pearl Cleage
• Max Cleland
• James C. Cobb
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Kenneth Coleman
• Evelyn Coleman
• Elizabeth 'Liz' Conrad
• Pat Conroy
• Jackie K. Cooper
• Stephen Corey
• Alfred Corn
• E. Merton Coulter
• Harry Crews
• Lynn Cullen

~D~

• Rosemary Daniell
• James Dashner
• Janice Daugharty
• Doris Davenport
• Ossie Davis
• Carmen Agra Deedy
• James Dickey
• William Diehl
• Richard Doster
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Elizabeth O. Dulemba
• Ted M. Dunagan
• Nathalie Dupree
• Pam Durban

~E~

• John T. Edge
• Margaret Edson
• Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson)

~F~

• Rebecca Latimer Felton
• Jeff Fields
• Berry Fleming
• Francis Fontaine

~G~

• Amanda Gable
• Thomas Gonzalez
• Henry W. Grady
• Julien Green
• Melissa Fay Greene
• Walter Griffin
• Lewis Grizzard
• Anthony Grooms

~H~

• Loretta Johnson Hammer
• Jessica Handler
• Evelyn Hanna
• Lauretta Hannon
• S.A. Harazin
• Will Harben
• Linda Lee Harper
• Corra Harris
• Joel Chandler Harris
• E. Lynn Harris
• Paul Hemphill
• John Holman
• Mary Hood
• Mac Hyman

~I~

• Arthur Crew Inman

~J~

• Joshilyn Jackson
• Ha Jin
• Greg Johnson
• Georgia Douglas Johnson
• Nunnally Johnson
• Richard Malcolm Johnston
• Tayari Jones
• Charles Colcock Jones Jr.
• Sheri Joseph

~K~

• Gail Langer Karwoski
• Terry Kay
• Collin Kelley
• Fanny Kemble
• Sue Monk Kidd
• James Kilgo
• John Oliver Killens
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Hank Klibanoff

~L~

• Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
• Sidney Lanier
• John Lewis
• Stanley Lindberg
• Laura Lippman
• Eric Litwin
• Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
• Grace Lumpkin
• Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin
• Thomas N. Lux

~M~

• Frank Manley
• Bill Mayer
• Frances Mayes
• Benjamin E. Mays
• June Hall McCash
• Carson McCullers
• Karen Salyer McElmurray
• Ralph McGill
• James Alan McPherson
• Terra Elan McVoy
• Caroline Miller
• Zell Miller
• Judson Mitcham
• Margaret Mitchell
• Marion Montgomery
• Shelia P. Moses
• Pamela Bauer Mueller
• Thomas Mullen

~N~

• Frances Newman

~O~

• Don O'Briant
• Deirdre O'Connell
• Flannery O'Connor

~P~

• Eugene Patterson
• Ludlow Porch (Bobby C. Hanson)
• Eugenia Price
• Wyatt Prunty

~R~

• William Rawlings, Jr.
• Janisse Ray
• Byron Herbert Reece
• John Rollin Ridge
• Jack C. Riggs
• Mary Ann Rodman
• Larry Rubin
• Andy Runton

~S~

• Ferrol Sams
• Lola M. Schaefer
• Danny Schnitzlein
• Anne Firor Scott
• Bettie Sellers
• Vicky Alvear Shecter
• Louise Shivers
• Diane Z. Shore
• Celestine Sibley
• Anne Rivers Siddons
• Kim Siegelson
• Marian McCamy Sims
• Karin Slaughter
• Lillian Smith
• Charlie Smith
• Doris Buchanan Smith
• Laurel Snyder
• Walter Sorrells
• Phinizy Spalding
• Wylly Folk St. John
• Frank Lebby Stanton
• William W. Starr
• John Stone
• Melanie Sumner

~T~

• Barbara Brown Taylor
• Emory M. Thomas
• William Tappan Thompson
• Francis Orray Ticknor
• Jean Toomer
• Natasha Trethewey
• Kathy Hogan Trocheck (aka Mary Kay Andrews)
• Lamar Trotti
• Memye Curtis Tucker

~U~

• Alfred Uhry

~W~

• John Donald Wade
• Alice Walker
• Thomas E. Watson
• Don West
• Bailey White
• Walter White
• Deborah Wiles
• Philip Lee Williams
• Calder Willingham
• Virginia Willis
• Stuart Woods

~Y, Z~

• Frank Yerby
• Kevin Young
• Karen Spears Zacharias