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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