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…From Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippiwriter, Short story writer, writer
Eudora Welty (b. April 13 1909, Jackson, Mississippi - d. July 23 2001, Jackson, Mississippi) was an award-winning author and photographer who...
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature, Mississippiwriter, American, Stream of consciousness writing, non-linear…Short story writer, Southern writer, from Oxford, Mississippi
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...
Larry Brown

Larry Brown

male, deceased (2004)
A Miracle of Catfish, death by myocardial infarction, Easyriders, from Clinton, Mississippi, ON FIRE, from Oxford, Mississippi…Mississippiwriter, Short story writer, University of Mississippi
Larry Brown (July 9, 1951 - November 24, 2004) was an American writer who was born and lived in Oxford, Mississippi. Brown wrote non-fiction and...
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…Mississippiwriter, Missouri writer, Louisiana writer, 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...
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…Mississippiwriter, Mississippi-based Yoknapatawpha Press, University of Mississippi
William Weaks "Willie" Morris (November 29, 1934 - August 2, 1999), was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his...
John Grisham

John Grisham

male, 54 years old
from Charlottesville, Virginia, retired attorney, John Ray Grisham Jr, from Oxford, Mississippi, Virginia writer, Arkansas writer…mississippi lawyer, Mississippiwriter, Thriller writer
John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955) is a former politician, retired attorney, American novelist and author best known for his works of...
Barry Hannah

Barry Hannah

male, 67 years old
University of Arkansas, novelist, Mississippiwriter, Short story writer, American, from Oxford, Mississippi…from Clinton, Mississippi
Barry Hannah (born 1942) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Richard Ford

Richard Ford

male, 65 years old
pulitzer prize, Minimalist writer, Short story writer, The Lay of the Land, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Rock Springs…Maine writer, Mississippiwriter
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The...
Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote

male, deceased (2005)
historian, Mississippi Delta, The Civil War, Shelby Dade Foote, Jr, New South, PBS…Mississippiwriter, Tennessee writer, Military writer
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War. With geographic and cultural roots in the...