William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature, Mississippi writer, American, Stream of consciousness writing, non-linear…AmericanSouth, American Southern literature
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

female, deceased (1896)
Beecher family, American women writer, Women novelist, Congregationalist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, from Hartford, Connecticut…AmericanSouth, American
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery;...
Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

female, deceased (2001) (Jackson, Mississippi, United States)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, A Worn Path, Columbia Business School, Mississippi University For Women, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, death by pneumonia…AmericanSouth, American
Eudora Welty (b. April 13 1909, Jackson, Mississippi - d. July 23 2001, Jackson, Mississippi) was an award-winning author and photographer who...
C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward

male, deceased (1999)
Columbia University, Emory University, communist party, historian, from Arkansas, Historian of the United States…American, AmericanSouth
Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race...
Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Caldwell

male, deceased (1987)
Illegitimacy, epithet, Damn Fool, Playwright, Georgia (U.S. state) writer, south…American, AmericanSouth
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17,1903 - April 11, 1987) was an American author born in a house in the woods outside Moreland, Georgia in...
Willie Morris

Willie Morris

male, deceased (1999)
Harper's Magazine, Mississippi Delta, from Yazoo City, Mississippi, From Jackson, Mississippi, William Weaks "Willie" Morris, North Toward Home…AmericanSouth
William Weaks "Willie" Morris (November 29, 1934 - August 2, 1999), was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his...
William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms

male, deceased (1870)
Antebellum literature, southern literature, AmericanSouth, Uncle Tom's Cabin, South Carolina writer, American…South Carolina lawyer, From Charleston, South Carolina, from South Carolina
William Gilmore Simms (April 17 1806 - June 11 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South whose novels achieved great...
Eugenia Price

Eugenia Price

female, deceased (1996)
death from cardiovascular disease, novelist, from West Virginia, writer, American, author…AmericanSouth
Eugenia Price was an American author best known for her historical novels which were set in the American South.

Robert Coles

male, 80 years old
Child of Crisis, New Oxford Review, Children of Crisis, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Doubletake, American Poetry Review…AmericanSouth, American, south
Robert Coles (b. October 12, 1929) is an American author, developmental psychologist, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Boston,...

Michele Gillespie

female
Princeton University, Historian of the South, AmericanSouth, race, American, gender
Michele Gillespie is Kahle Family Associate Professor of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She specializes in...