Photographs

Shelby Foote © Mark Morrow

Memphis, TN

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist.[1] Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.[2]

Eudora Welty © Mark Morrow

Jackson, MS

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the

Ernest Gaines © Mark Morrow

Baton Rouge, LA

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works were made into television movies.[2]

His 1993 novel, A Lesson Befor

Peter Taylor © Mark Morrow

Charlottesville, VA

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Matthew Hillsman Taylor Jr.[1] (January 8, 1917 – November 2, 1994), known professionally as Peter Taylor, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.[2] Born and raised in Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri, he wrote frequently about the urban South in his stories and novels.

Erskine Caldwell © Mark Morrow

Phoenix, AZ

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.[7][8] His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim.

With cu

Walker Percy © Mark Morrow

Covington, LA

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Walker Percy, OblSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction.[1]

Trained as a physician at Columbia Universi

Doris Betts © Mark Morrow

Pittsboro, NC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Doris Betts (June 4, 1932 – April 21, 2012) was a short story writer, novelist, essayist and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1][2] She was the author of three short story collections and six novels.[3]

A.R. Ammons © Mark Morrow

Winston-Salem, NC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime.[1] Revered for his impact on American romantic poetry, Ammons received several major awards for his work

John Oliver Killens © Mark Morrow

Brooklyn, NY

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

John Oliver Killens (January 14, 1916 – October 27, 1987) was an American fiction writer from Georgia. His novels featured elements of African-American life. In his debut novel, Youngblood (1954), Killens coined the phrase "kicking ass and taking names".[1] He also wrote plays, short stories and essays

William Styron @ Mark Morrow

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.[1]

Cormac McCarthy @ Mark Morrow

Knoxville, TN

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He was known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writin

Tennessee Williams © Mark Morrow

Key West, FL

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.[1]

Harry Crews © Mark Morrow

Gainesville, FL

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South.

Barry Hannah © Mark Morrow

Oxford, MS

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.

Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi.[1][2] Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on April 23, 1942, and gre

Elizabeth Hardwick © Mark Morrow

New York, NY

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.[1]

Baltimore, MD

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,

Chapel Hill, NC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Paul Eliot Green (March 17, 1894 – May 4, 1981) was an American playwright whose work includes historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, which was included in Burns Mantle's The

Columbia, SC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.[3] He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966.[5] He also received the Order of the South award.

Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 197

Chapel Hill, NC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical scholarship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts a

Columbia, SC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.[1] He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into

Columbia, SC

First Published in Images of the Southern Writer

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most importan

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