Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

female, 45 years old
memoirist, Tennesseewriter, Sarah Lawrence College alumni, University of Iowa alumni, Nashville Banner, Guggenheim Fellowship
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her...
James Agee

James Agee

male, deceased (1955)
Harvard University, phillips exeter academy, Screenwriter, Tennesseewriter, From Knoxville, Tennessee, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film...
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

male, 76 years old
the road, post-apocalyptic, New Mexico writer, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, writer, Irish-American…Western writer, From Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennesseewriter
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the...
Wilma Dykeman

Wilma Dykeman

female, deceased (2006)
writer, American, appalachia, Tennesseewriter, nonfiction
Wilma Dykeman Stokely (born May 20, 1920 - died December 22, 2006) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction whose works chronicled the...
Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni

female, 66 years old
African American, Breast cancer patients, Virginia Tech faculty, From Knoxville, Tennessee, Fisk University alumni, From Cincinnati…Tennesseewriter, writer
Yolanda Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni (b. June 7 1943, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American poet and author.
Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell

male, 52 years old
Hollins University alumni, From Nashville, Tennessee, New York Times, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Maryland writer, National Book Award…Short story writer, Tennesseewriter
Born and raised in Tennessee, Bell is placed by many critics in the grand tradition of Southern American letters, despite the fact that much of his...
Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman

male, 61 years old (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)
Einstein's Dreams, Princeton University alumni, Harvard University, White Station High School, phi beta kappa, Tennesseewriter…writer
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in...
Alex Haley

Alex Haley

male, deceased (1992)
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, death by myocardial infarction, American military personnel of World War II, United States Coast Guard personnel, American, writer…Tennesseewriter, From Knoxville, Tennessee
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer. He is best known for "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", which he co-wrote in collaboration...
Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote

male, deceased (2005)
historian, Mississippi Delta, The Civil War, Shelby Dade Foote, Jr, New South, PBS…Mississippi writer, Tennesseewriter, 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...
Will Allen Dromgoole

Will Allen Dromgoole

female, deceased (1934)
Murfreesboro, poet, Essayist, motivational speaker, American, Tennesseewriter
Will Allen Dromgoole (October 26, 1860-September 1, 1934) was an author and poet born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She wrote over 7,500 poems, 5,000...