William Styron

William Styron

male, deceased (2006)
Darkness Visible, McGraw Hill Publishers, Set This House On Fire, A Tidewater Morning, Virginiawriter, Christchurch School…From Newport News, Virginia
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11 1925 - November 1 2006) was an eminent American novelist and essayist. Before the publication of his memoir...
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

male, deceased (1849)
poet, Short story writer, Romanticism, Horror writer, American, Detective fiction…Philadelphia writer, Maryland writer, University of Virginia alumni, Virginiawriter, From Richmond, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the...
Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow

female, deceased (1945)
novelist, pulitzer prize, American, Southern United States, From Richmond, Virginia, memoirist…Virginiawriter
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia....
James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell

male, deceased (1958)
Obscenity controversy, novelist, Obscenity controversies, belles lettres, Virginiawriter, fantasy fiction…From Richmond, Virginia, fantasy writer
James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. While Cabell's surname is often...
John Grisham

John Grisham

male, 54 years old
from Charlottesville, Virginia, retired attorney, John Ray Grisham Jr, from Oxford, Mississippi, Virginiawriter, Arkansas writer…Mississippi writer, 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...
George Garrett

George Garrett

male, 80 years old
George Palmer Garrett, Jr, Princeton University alumni, Even the god must be baffled, Marble is not flesh and blood, I dream of our lost beginnings, lips tense with a frozen scream…Virginiawriter, University of Virginia
George Palmer Garrett, Jr. (born June 11, 1929) is an American poet and novelist. He has been the poet laureate of Virginia since 2002. His novels...
Lucius Shepard

Lucius Shepard

male, 62 years old
novelist, Washington writer, Short story writer, Virginiawriter, From Vancouver, Washington, Green eyes…from Lynchburg, Virginia, science fiction writer, fantasy writer, Horror writer
Lucius Shepard (born August 1947, Lynchburg, Virginia, though stories and articles published under his name from 1952-1955 in Collins Magazine...
Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson

male, deceased (1950)
Negro World contributor, from Washington, D.C., Virginiawriter, West Virginia writer, Washington, D.C. writer, Negro World contributors…from Virginia, from Huntington, West Virginia
Carter Godwin Woodson was an African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. He is considered the first to...
Willa Cather

Willa Cather

female, deceased (1947)
My Ántonia, author, death comes for the archbishop, from Winchester, Virginia, Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winner, writer…Virginiawriter, LGBT writer, New York writer, Nebraska writer, Short story writer
Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of U.S. life...
Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie

female, 62 years old
Minimalist writer, University of Connecticut alumni, University of Connecticut faculty, from Washington, D.C., Maryland writer, Virginiawriter…Washington, D.C. writer, from Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia faculty, writer, Short story writer
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American...