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Classic Southern Literature: Early to Mid 20th Century
James
Agee - Poet, novelist, and one of the most influential film critics of the 1930s and 40s.
Erskine
Caldwell - Author whose unadorned novels and stories about the rural poor of the South mix violence and
sex in grotesque tragi-comedy.
Kate
Chopin - Novelist and short-story writer known as the interpreter of New Orleans culture.
Countee
Cullen - Poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
James
Dickey - Poet, novelist, and critic.
Ralph
Ellison - Teacher and writer who won eminence with his first and only published novel ... about race
relations ... in the 20th century.
William
Faulkner - Novelist and short-story writer best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle.
Ellen
Glasgow - Novelist whose realistic depiction of Virginia life helped direct Southern literature away
from sentimentality and nostalgia.
Paul
Green - Novelist and playwright whose works characteristically deal with North Carolina folklore and
regional themes.
Lillian
Hellman - Playwright and screenwriter whose dramas bitterly attacked injustice and exploitation.
Zora Neale
Hurston - Folklorist and writer who celebrated black culture in the voice of the rural South.
Carson
McCullers - Writer of novels and stories that depict the inner lives of lonely people.
Margaret Mitchell - Author of the enormously popular novel Gone With the Wind.
Walker
Percy - Novelist who wrote of the search for faith and love in the New South, a place transformed by
industry and technology.
Katherine Anne Porter - Writer whose long short stories have a richness of texture and complexity
of character delineation usually achieved only in the novel.
John Crowe
Ransom - Poet and critic, leading theorist of the Southern literary renaissance that began after World
War I.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Novelist who founded a regional literature of backwoods Florida.
Jesse
Stuart - Short-story writer, novelist, and poet.
Allen
Tate - Poet, teacher, novelist, and leading exponent of the New Criticism.
Robert
Penn Warren - Novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South
beset by the erosion of its traditional values.
Eudora
Welty - Short-story writer and novelist whose work focuses on regional manners in her native
Mississippi.
Tennessee
Williams - Dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence often
underlie a pervasive atmosphere of romantic gentility.
Thomas
Wolfe - Novelist.
Richard
Wright - Novelist and short-story writer, one of the first American black writers to protest white
treatment of blacks.
Author descriptions are from Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of American Writers.
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