- female, 82 years old
- Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", her only major work to date.
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- male, deceased (1915)
- Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community....
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- female, deceased (1960)
- Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known...
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- female, 90 years old
- Kathryn Tucker Windham (born June 2, 1918) is a storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist. She was born in Selma, Alabama and was raised in...
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- male, 49 years old
- Rick Bragg (born July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama) won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at "The New York Times". He...
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- female, 64 years old
- Fannie Flagg (born September 21, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American author and actress. She was born Patricia Neal, a name she could not...
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- male, 64 years old
- Winston Groom (born 1944) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book "Forrest Gump", which was adapted into a film in...
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- male, deceased (1976)
- Hudson Strode was an author and professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Alabama from 1916 until...
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- female, deceased (2001)
- Anne Carroll George was an American author and poet. She was Alabama's state poet in 1994. She died in 2001 of heart surgery complications.
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- male, 63 years old
- Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his short...
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