Ernest Gaines

Ernest Gaines

male, 76 years old
Order of Arts and Letters, macarthur foundation, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Humanities Medal, from Louisiana…University of Louisiana at Lafayette faculty, writer, university of louisiana at lafayette, Louisianawriter
Ernest J. Gaines (b. January 15, 1933), a prominent African-American fiction writer, is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at...
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

male (Guthrie)
Louisiana State University faculty, New Criticism, American, rhodes scholar, Bone cancer death, All the King's Men…Kentucky writer, Louisianawriter, Louisiana State University
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from...
Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa

male, 61 years old
Fellowship of Southern Writer, New York University, Mandy Sayer, Neon Vernacular, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Neon Vernacular New and Selected Poems…Louisianawriter, from Louisiana
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-) American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Gay Rights Club also Fellowship of...
Walker Percy

Walker Percy

male, deceased (1990) (Birmingham, Alabama, United States)
Christian, Columbia Medical School alumni, Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother, novelist, from Louisiana, writer…Louisianawriter, Louisiana State University faculty
Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known...
Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin

female, deceased (1904)
American women writer, vogue magazine, Louisiana Creole, From st. louis, missouri, Business Person, Missouri writer…from Natchitoches, Louisiana, from Louisiana, writer, Louisianawriter, Short story writer
Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 - August 22, 1904), was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a...
James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

male, 73 years old
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, University of Missouri–Columbia, Heaven's Prisoner, New Iberia, mysteries…Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Crime fiction writer, Montana writer, from Louisiana, mystery writer
James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. He has twice received the Edgar Award...
Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

male, deceased (1983)
from New Orleans, From st. louis, missouri, University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, Frank Merlo, Tony Award, cat on a hot tin roof…Mississippi writer, Missouri writer, Louisianawriter, LGBT writer, writer
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright...
James Wilcox

James Wilcox

male, 60 years old
Hunk City, The Los Angeles Times, Louisiana State University faculty, comic novel, literary fiction, Miss Undine's Living Room…Louisianawriter, Louisiana State University
James Wilcox (b. 1949 in Hammond, Louisiana) is an American novelist and a professor at LSU in Baton Rouge. Wilcox is the author of eight comic...
Anne Rice

Anne Rice

female, 68 years old
from New Orleans, Former atheists and agnostic, California writer, gothic, Gothic fiction, from California…American fantasy writer, Erotica writer, Erotic horror writer, writer, fantasy writer
Anne Rice (born on October 4, 1941) is a best-selling American author of gothic and later religious themed books. Best known for her Vampire...