Arts and Literature
- Enrique Alferez, sculptor
- John James Audubon, painter, ornithologist, naturalist
- E. J. Bellocq, photographer
- Skip Bolen, photographer
- James Belton Bonsall, painter
- Poppy Z. Brite, writer
- George Washington Cable, writer
- Milburn E. Calhoun, book publisher
- Truman Capote, writer
- John Churchill Chase, writer and cartoonist
- Kate Chopin, writer, feminist
- Ben Claassen III, illustrator and comics artist DIRTFARM
- Andrei Codrescu, poet and commentator
- Edgar Degas, artist
- George Washington Dixon, newspaper editor
- William Faulkner, writer
- Daniel F. Galouye, science fiction writer
- Shirley Ann Grau, writer
- Lafcadio Hearn, writer
- Knute Heldner, artist.
- Lillian Hellman, writer
- George Herriman, Krazy Kat cartoonist
- Caroline Hill, actress
- Walter Isaacson, writer, journalist, public policy analyst
- Elmore Leonard, author
- Michael Lewis, writer
- Renee Peck, writer
- Matthew Randazzo V, writer
- Anne Rice, writer of vampire tales and other Gothic fiction
- Christopher Rice, author
- Stan Rice, poet
- George Rodrigue, artist
- Jean Seidenberg, artist
- Sam A. Threefoot, writer, researcher, and physician
- John Kennedy Toole, writer of A Confederacy of Dunces
- Mary Lou Widmer, author
- Tennessee Williams, Famous Playwright
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“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
—Carson McCullers (1917–1967)