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Southern U.S. Writers

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Celestine Sibley (1914 - 1999)
Celestine Sibley was a well-known reporter and columnist for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 until her death in 1999. Sibley, a renowned southern author, journalist, and syndicated columnist, report...
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John Kennedy Toole (1937 - 1969)
Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Aug 19 2018, 17:38:09 UTC Author. He was posthumously awarded a 1981 Pulitzer Prize for his uproarious picaresque novel "A Confederacy of Dunces". Its antihe...
Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, she wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She wa...
Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)
Zora Neale Hurston was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is bes...
William Alexander Percy (1885 - 1942)
William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 – January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. His ...