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Favorite Southern authors..

I have always enjoyed reading and thank my parents for planting that seed. I read all kinds of things, whatever interests me, but hold a special place in my heart for Southern authors. Some of my favorites are Larry McMurtry (his "Lonesome Dove" is a true classic), the late Lewis Grizzard (his humorous books with titles such as "Elvis is Dead, and I Don't Feel So Good Myself," will live forever), Pat Conroy, Dorothea Benton Frank (who was born here in the Charleston area and still has a home here), and Harper Lee. Who are your favorites?

posted by clarity2

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I love the Ann Rice books, especially the ones based in New Orleans, a place I've always wanted to go.

posted by Earthchild999
3 months ago

Don't know if Tennessee Williams is considered an Author, or a Playwright.....but I love his work.........Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Streetcar Named Desire.....

Love Harper Lee, too.

posted by Suzette
3 months ago

There are so many great southern authors that we probably could read for years without ever picking up a book written by someone born in the south. My favorites southern writers are Anne Rice, Louis Grizzard, Fannie Flagg, Alice Walker, Truman Capote and of course, Margaret Mitchell. I also enjoyed the Eugenia Price books too. While she was born in West Virginia (where I come from that is way up north) she researched well and wrote some great novels set in the old south.

posted by tkam62
3 months ago

how about william faukner ("the reviers)i can't remember the author's name but the lady who wrote fried green tomatoes @ the whistle stop cafe"

posted by jameyt
3 months ago

jameyt...Fanny Flagg wrote Fried Green Tomatoes (at the Whistle Stop Cafe).

posted by clarity2
3 months ago

Love Pat Conroy and James Dickey. But also Mark Twain, Sue Monk Kidd and Pulitzer prize winner Cormac McCarthy. All have a real, true feel of what the South really is. What a great post, thanks! PS - my nephew Will Allison has a good book out "What You Have Left", give it a read.

posted by Grandgirl47
3 months ago

My personal favorite is still Samuel Langhorn Clemens.....aka Mark Twain.....

posted by hershman
2 months ago

George Garrett, who died in May. a writer of poetry, short stories , novels, etc, was a wonderful writer. A lot of his early works were about Florida . Among them
"The Finished Man". He was my neighbor growing up.
Also Rebecca Wells of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" fame.