Literature
- Jeff Abbott (born 1963), mystery novelist
- Susan Wittig Albert (born 1940), mystery writer
- Sybil Leonard Armes (1914–2007), author, poet, musician
- Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960), poet, author
- Neal Barrett, Jr. (born 1929), science fiction-fantasy writer
- Barbara Barrie (born 1931), author of children's books
- Rick Bass (born 1958), writer, environmentalist
- Raymond Benson (born 1955), novelist
- Sarah Bird (born 1949), novelist, screenwriter, journalist
- James Lee Burke (born 1936), mystery writer
- Harley True Burton (1888–1964), author The History of the JA Ranch
- Katherine Center (born 1972), author of chick lit, mommy lit
- Pat Choate (born 1941), author, economist
- Sandra Cisneros (born 1954), author and poet
- Deborah Crombie (born 1952), mystery writer
- Justin Cronin (born 1962), novelist
- James Crumley (1939–2008), crime novelist
- Jim Dent (born 1953), author, sportswriter
- J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964), folklorist and writer about open-range days
- Carole Nelson Douglas (born 1944), mystery writer
- Robert M. Edsel (born 1956), nonfiction writer, oil company founder and innovator
- Kitty Ferguson (born 1941), science writer
- Robert Flynn (born 1932), novelist
- Horton Foote (1916–2009), author and playwright
- Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen Gammel (1854–1931), editor and publisher of The Laws of Texas 1822–1897
- Bryan A. Garner (born 1958), lexicographer, grammarian, author, educator
- Fred Gipson (1908–1973), novelist, author of Old Yeller
- John Graves (born 1920), author
- Christine Ha (born 1979), writer, poet, editor; also a chef who won the grand prize on the MasterChef cooking competition on Fox in 2012
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (born 1938), novelist, journalist, playwright
- J. Evetts Haley (1901–1995), historian and political activist
- Laura Vernon Hamner (1871–1968), author; ranch historian; educator
- Stephen Harrigan (born 1948), novelist, journalist
- Stanley Hauerwas (born 1940), theologian, philosopher
- Bobbie Louise Hawkins (born 1930), short story writer, monologist, and poet
- Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), poet and writer
- Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), writer, author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Thomas Elisha Hogg (1842–1880), poet, writer, editor
- Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846), wrote first English-language history of Texas
- Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, and other pulp adventure tales
- William Humphrey (1924–1997), novelist
- Bret Anthony Johnston (born 1971), author, director of creative writing program at Harvard University
- Mary Karr (born 1955), poet, essayist, memoirist
- Elmer Kelton (1926–2009), journalist, western novelist
- Joe R. Lansdale (born 1951), author of crime thrillers and the Hap and Leonard novels
- Jenny Lawson, journalist, humorist, blogger
- David Liss (born 1966), writer
- Max Lucado (born 1955), best-selling Christian author
- Corey Marks (born 1970), poet, educator
- Larry McMurtry (born 1936), Pulitzer Prize winning author of Lonesome Dove
- Frances Mossiker (1906–1985), author of historical novels
- Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952), poet, songwriter, novelist
- Bill O'Neal (born 1942), author, historian, educator
- Marc Ostrofsky (born 1961), author, entrepreneur, investor
- William A. Owens (1905–1990), author, folklorist, educator
- Americo Paredes (1915–1999), author of books on life along the U.S.–Mexican border
- Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), historian of modern Spain and European Fascism
- Rachel Plummer (1818–1839), wrote a sensational account of her captivity among Comanches
- Julie Powell (born 1973), author and subject of the film, Julie & Julia
- Rupert N. Richardson (1891–1988), historian
- Rick Riordan (born 1964), novelist
- Lou Halsell Rodenberger (1926–2009), author, educator, journalist
- Jane Gilmore Rushing (born c. 1923), novelist, journalist
- Dorothy Scarborough (1878–1935), author, folklorist
- Robert Schenkkan (born 1953), playwright, screenwriter, actor
- Cynthia Leitich Smith (born 1967), author of fiction for children and young adults
- Suzy Spencer (born 1954) True crime author, journalist; New York Times Best Seller List
- John Steakley (1951–2010), science fiction-fantasy writer
- Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005), poet, critic, educator
- Jim Thompson (1906–1977), author of hardboiled crime fiction
- Lon Tinkle (1906–1980), author, Texas historian
- Sergio Troncoso (born 1961), author of The Nature of Truth
- Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963), author, historian
- Ruthe Lewin Winegarten (1929–2004), author, editor, historian, social activist
- Joaquin Zihuatanejo, poet
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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)