This Website is about Great Southern Writers> Of the Past In chronological order William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) Edgar Allan Poe (1812-1849) Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith) (1826-1903) Augusta Evans Wilson (1835-1909) George Washington Cable (1844-1925) Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) James Lane Allen (1849-1925) Kate Chopin (1851-1904) W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963) Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945) Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) Allen Tate (1899-1979) Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) William Faulkner (1897-1962) Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) Richard Wright (1908-1960) Eudora Welty (1909-2001) Walker Percy (1916-1990) Frank Yerby (1925-1964) Willie Morris (1934-1999) Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) Contemporary Southern Writers