This Website Is About
Contemporary Southern Writers

For the purposes of this website, a Southern writer is one that uses Southern settings in his/her stories. Poets, playrights, television scriptwriters, and songwriters will not be included. Nonfiction writers who write about the South will be considered.
Constructive input is welcome, but I do not promise to reply to every email I receive.Click here to email the Professor.


Margaret Walker (1915-)
Ellen Douglas (1921-)
Elizabeth Spencer (1921-)
James Dickey (1923-)
William Styron (1925-)
Ellen Gilchrist (1935-)
Barry Hannah(1942-)
Richard Ford (1944-)
Alice Walker (1944-)
John Grisham (1955-)

Aspiring Southern Writers