Arts and Literature
- John Beecher, activist poet
- Allen Barra, journalist, sports writer
- Joe David Brown, journalist, novelist
- Steven Ford Brown, publisher, translator, writer
- Mark Childress, author
- Jon Coffelt, artist
- Clayton Colvin, artist
- Dennis Covington, journalist, writer
- George R. Ellis (born 1937), author, art historian and director of Honolulu Academy of Arts
- Fannie Flagg, author, actress
- Frank Fleming, sculptor
- Charles Gaines, novelist, screenwriter
- Charles Ghigna, poet, children's author
- Gail Godwin, novelist
- John Green, novelist
- Joe Hilley, novelist
- Kerry James Marshall, artist
- Harold E. Martin, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman
- Spider Martin, photojournalist
- Robert R. McCammon, novelist
- Kevin McGowin, novelist, reviewer
- Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Walker Percy, author
- Howell Raines, New York Times editor
- James Redfield, novelist
- John Rhoden, sculptor
- Sonia Sanchez, poet
- Rowland Scherman, Grammy-award winning photographer
- Melissa Springer, photographer
- Ann Waldron (1924–2010), author.
- Margaret Walker, poet and author
- Tobias Wolff, author
- Daniel Wallace, novelist
- John Weld, newspaper reporter, writer, Hollywood stunt man
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)