southernwriters - Profile (original) (raw)
on 27 September 2002 (#720196)
This community was created for LiveJournal users to discuss the unique literary tradition of the American South: poets, novelists, essayists, humorists, journalists, thespians, speech-writers, songwriters, famous (or not-so-famous) literary works, and the canon of Southern literature in general (including those who may not have been born in the South, but lived/wrote in the region for a large part of their lives). Feel free to post your own writing!
--Tennessee Williams in New Orleans
--James Dickey
--Allen Tate, Leonie Adams, T.S. Eliot, Theodore Spencer, and Robert Penn Warren; November 19, 1948
"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness."
--Alex Haley
agrarians, alabama, alex haley, alice walker, allen tate, american literature, anne rice, anne spencer, annie dillard, arkansas, booker t. washington, books, carson mccullers, cormac mccarthy, dave barry, donald davidson, dorothy allison, edgar allan poe, ernest gaines, erskine caldwell, etheridge knight, eudora welty, fannie flagg, faulkner, flannery o'connor, florida, folk tales, fred chappell, frederick douglass, george washington cable, georgia, h.l. mencken, hank williams, harper lee, harriet jacobs, henry timrod, huey long, hunter s. thompson, james agee, james dickey, james weldon johnson, jean toomer, jefferson davis, jesse stuart, joel chandler harris, john crowe ransom, john grisham, john howard griffin, john kennedy toole, journalism, kate chopin, katherine anne porter, kentucky, leadbelly, lee smith, lillian hellman, literature, louisiana, margaret mitchell, margaret walker, mark twain, martin luther king jr., maryland, maya angelou, mississippi, missouri, north carolina, novels, ogden nash, ole miss, oxford american, pat conroy, poems, poetry, poets, poppy z. brite, ralph ellison, randy newman, reading, richard wright, rick bragg, robert e. lee, robert penn warren, shelby foote, short stories, sister helen prejean, south, south carolina, southern literature, southern poetry, southern poets, stephen ambrose, steve martin, t. harry williams, t.s. eliot, tall tales, tennessee, tennessee williams, texas, the fugitives, the south, thomas harris, thomas jefferson, thomas wolfe, tom wolfe, truman capote, uncle remus, vanderbilt, virginia, w.j. cash, walker percy, west virginia, william alexander percy, william faulkner, william s. burroughs, william styron, willie dixon, winston groom, writing, yusef komunyakaa, zora neale hurston