Southern Fiction Authors

General Fiction
Dorothy Allison SC
Tina McElroy Ansa GA
David Baldacci VA
Frederick Barthelme MS
Lois Battle GA/SC
Larry Brown MS
Olive Ann Burns GA
Pearl Cleage GA
Pat Conroy SC
Janice Daugharty GA
Eric Jerome Dickey TN
James Dickey GA/SC
Ellen Douglas MS
Clyde Edgerton NC
Berry Fleming GA
Richard Ford MS
Dorothea Benton Frank SC
Kaye Gibbons NC
Ellen Gilchrist MS/AR
Karen Gillespie SC
Gail Godwin AL/NC
Jim Grimsley NC/GA
Winston Groom AL
Josephine Humphreys SC
Frances Parkinson Keyes VA/LA
Sue Monk Kidd GA/SC
Cassandra King AL/FL
Barbara Kingsolver – Appalachia
Brett Lott MS/SC
Jill McCorkle NC
Sharyn McCrumb VA
Shelley Fraser Mickle AR/TN
Ann Patchett TN
Dori Sanders SC
Celestine Sibley GA
Anne Rivers Siddons GA
Deborah Smith GA
Lee Smith VA/NC
Adriana Trigiani VA
Anne Tyler NC
Rebecca Wells LA

Historical Fiction
Howard Bahr MS
Gwen Bristow AL/LA
Jimmy Carter GA
Borden Deal MS/AL
Pat Cunningham Devoto AL
Shelby Foote MS
Charles Frazier NC
Allan Gurganus NC
Sharyn McCrumb VA
Margaret Mitchell GA
Robert Morgan NC
Sena Naslund AL
Alexandra Ripley VARIOUS
Ferrol Sams GA
Frances Statham GA
Margaret Walker AL/LA

Horror
John Farris TN/GA

Humorous Fiction
Mary Kay Andrews GA
Julie Cannon GA 
Mark Childress AL
Fannie Flagg AL
Anne George AL
Joshilyn Jackson AL
Ann Ross NC
George Singleton SC
Bailey White GA

Inspirational
Terri Blackstock MS
Ray Blackston SC
T. Davis Bunn NC
Jan Karon NC
Terry Kay GA
Catherine Marshall TN
Joan Medlicott NC
Gilbert Morris AR/AL
Jamie L. Turner MS/SC
Effie Wilder SC

Literary
Erskine Caldwell GA
Truman Capote LA/AL
Fred Chappell NC
William Faulkner MS
Ernest Gaines LA
Zora Neale Hurston AL/FL
Harper Lee AL
Carson McCullers MS
Flannery O’Connor GA
Walker Percy AL/MS/LA
Eugenia Price GA
Reynolds Price NC
William Styron VA
Alice Walker GA
Eudora Welty MS
Tennessee Williams MS/LA

Mystery & Suspense
Ace Atkins MS
David Baldacci VA
Nevada Barr MS
Rita Mae Brown VA
James Lee Burke LA
Peter Deutermann NC
William Diehl GA
Anne George AL
John Grisham MS/VA
Carolyn Haines MS
Joan Hess AR
Iris Johansen GA
Graham Landrum TN
Virginia Lanier GA
Sharyn McCrumb VA
Margaret Maron NC
Fern Michaels SC
Cathy Pickens SC
Sarah Shankman LA/GA/TN
Celestine Sibley GA
Elizabeth Spencer MS/NC
Patricia Sprinkle GA
Kathy Trocheck GA
Stuart Woods GA

Science Fiction
Michael Bishop GA
Orson Scott Card NC
Jack McDevitt GA

Western
Bud Jones GA
Frank Yerby GA