Harper Lee

Harper Lee

female, 83 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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

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...
Kathryn Tucker Windham

Kathryn Tucker Windham

female, 91 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...
Rick Bragg

Rick Bragg

male, 50 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...
Fannie Flagg

Fannie Flagg

female, 65 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...
Winston Groom

Winston Groom

male, 65 years old
is an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film in 1994. Groom was born in...
Hudson Strode

Hudson Strode

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...

Anne George

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.
Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

male, 64 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...
Brad Vice

Brad Vice

male, 36 years old
Brad Vice (born November 14, 1973) is a fiction writer whose short story collection, "The Bear Bryant Funeral Train", won the Flannery O'Connor...