The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 9, Literature

Content: Literature. African American literature --
Agrarianism in literature --
Appalachian literature --
Autobiography and memoir --
Biography --
Blues literature --
Civil rights in literature --
Civil War in literature --
Detective fiction --
Folklore in literature --
Food in literature --
Fugitives and agrarians --
Gender and sexuality in literature --
Globalization and Southern literature --
Humor --
Indian literature --
Nature writing and writers --
New critics --
North in literature --
Periodicals --
Poetry --
Popular literature --
Postcolonial Southern literature --
Postsouthern literature --
Publishing --
Regionalism and local color --
Religion and literature --
Southern gothic --
Theater, early --
Theater, modern and contemporary --
Travel writing. James Agee --
Conrad Aiken --
James Lane Allen --
Dorothy Allison --
A.R. Ammons --
Raymond Andrews --
Tina McElroy Ansa --
James Applewhite --
Anne Wetzell Armstrong --
Harriette Simpson Arnow --
Ace Atkins --
David Baldacci --
John Barth --
Frederick Barthelme --
Rick Bass --
Hamilton Basso --
Richard Bausch --
Madison Smartt Bell --
Wendell Berry --
Doris Betts --
Joseph L. Blotner --
Roy Blount, Jr. --
Sherwood Bonner --
Arna Bontemps --
Roark Bradford --
Rick Bragg --
Henry Hershel Brickell --
Cleanth Brooks --
Larry Brown --
Rita Mae Brown --
Sterling Allen Brown --
William Wells Brown --
James Lee Burke --
William Byrd, II --
James Branch Cabell --
George Washington Cable --
Erskine Caldwell --
Will D. Campbell --
Truman Capote --
W.J. Cash --
Fred Chappell --
Kelly Cherry --
Mary Boykin Chesnut --
Charles W. Chesnutt --
Kate Chopin --
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) --
David Cohn --
Pat Conroy --
Harry Crews --
David Crockett (Davy) --
Mart Crowley --
Olive Tilford Dargan --
Guy Davenport --
Donald Davidson --
Borden Deal --
James Dickey --
Thomas Dixon, Jr. --
Ellen Douglas --
Frederick Douglass --
Rita Dove --
W.E.B. Du Bois --
Wilma Dykeman --
Clyde Edgerton --
Ralph Ellison --
Augusta Jane Evans --
Percival Everett --
William Faulkner --
Nikky Finney --
Zelda Fitzgerald --
John Gould Fletcher --
Horton Foote --
Shelby Foote --
Jesse Hill Ford --
Richard Ford --
John Fox, Jr. --
William Price Fox --
John Hope Franklin --
Tom Franklin --
Charles Frazier --
Ernest J. Gaines --
Frances Ormond Jones --
George Garrett --
Tim Gautreaux --
Kaye Gibbons --
Ellen Gilchrist --
Nikki Giovanni --
Ellen Glasgow --
Gail Godwin --
Caroline Gordon --
Shirley Ann Grau --
Paul Green --
Melissa Fay Greene --
Jim Grimsley --
John Grisham --
Lewis Grizzard --
Winston Groom --
Anthony Grooms --
Allan Gurganus --
Alex Haley --
Barry Hannah --
Elizabeth Hardwick --
Donald Harington --
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --
George Washington Harris --
Joel Chandler Harris --
Thomas Harris --
Brooks Haxton --
Lillian Hellman --
Beth Henley --
DuBose Heyward --
Endesha Ida Mae Holland --
C. Hugh Holman --
Mary Hood --
Johnson Jones Hooper --
Jay Broadus Hubbell --
Josephine Humphrey --
Zora Neale Hurston --
Blyden Jackson --
Randall Jarrell --
Thomas Jefferson --
James Weldon Johnson --
Mary Johnston --
Madison Jones --
Randal Kenan --
John Pendleton Kennedy --
Florence King --
Grace King --
Barbara Kingsolver --
Etheridge Knight --
Yusef Kommunyakaa --
Sidney Lanier --
Harper Lee --
Henry Clay Lewis --
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet --
Grace Lumpkin --
Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin --
Andrew Lytle --
David Madden --
Jeff Daniel Marion --
Doug Marlette --
Bobbie Ann Mason --
Cormac McCarthy --
Jill McCorkle --
Carson McCullers --
H.L. Mencken --
Jim Wayne Miller --
Jason Milligan --
Margaret Mitchell --
Anne Moody --
Robert Morgan --
Willie Morris --
Toni Morrison --
Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) --
Albert Murray --
Frances Newman --
Lewis Nordan --
Flannery O\'Connor --
Guy Owen --
Thomas Nelson Page --
Walker Percy --
William Alexander Percy --
Julia Mood Peterkin --
Jayne Anne Phillips --
Edgar Allan Poe --
Katherine Anne Porter --
Charles Portis --
Reynolds Price --
Vance Randolph --
John Crowe Ransom --
Ron Rash --
Janisse Ray --
Ishmael Reed --
John Shelton Reed --
Mark Richard --
 Elizabeth Madox Roberts --
Louis D. Rubin, Jr. --
Archibald Hamilton Rutledge --
Dori Sanders --
Evelyn Scott --
James Seay --
Mary Lee Settle --
William Gilmore Simms --
Lewis P. Simpson --
Dave Smith --
Lee Smith --
Lillian Smith --
E.D.E.N. Southworth --
Frank Stanford --
Darcey Steinke --
James Still --
James Street --
T.S. Stribling --
Jesse Hilton Stuart --
Mary Routh (Ruth) McEnery Stuart --
William Styron --
Walter Sullivan --
Allen Tate --
Peter Taylor --
Thomas Bangs Thorpe --
Henry Timrod --
John Kennedy Toole --
Jean Toomer --
Natasha Trethewey --
Anne Tyler --
Alice Walker --
Margaret Walker --
Robert Penn Warren --
Booker T. Washington --
Samuel Rush Watkins --
Eudora Welty --
James Wilcox --
Ben Ames Williams --
Tennessee Williams --
Thomas Wolfe --
Tom Wolfe --
C. Vann Woodward --
Richard Wright --
Steve Yarbrough --
Frank Yerby --
Al Young --
Stark Young --
Thomas Daniel Young.