Authors
- Elizabeth Cox, novelist
- Lowell Cunningham, comic book writer
- Owen Davis, playwright
- Alex Haley, novelist, biographer and essayist
- May Justus, author of children's books
- Marilyn Kallet, poet
- Joseph Wood Krutch, novelist, critic and naturalist
- Richard Marius, novelist, scholar and speechwriter
- Cormac McCarthy, novelist
- Dave Ramsey, financial guru, author, and host of The Dave Ramsey Show
- Vince Staten, humorist
- Kurt Vonnegut, novelist and essayist
- Travis Beacham, screenwriter
- Allen Wier, fiction writer and scholar
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