List of People From Arkansas - Authors

Authors

  • Adler, Margot, journalist and correspondent
  • Angelou, Maya (born 1928), author, poet
  • Brown, Dee (1908–2002), author, historian, novelist
  • Brown, Helen Gurley (born 1922), author, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine
  • Greg Alan Brownderville, poet
  • Collins, Nancy A., author
  • Fletcher, John Gould (1886–1950), poet
  • Grisham, John (born 1955), novelist
  • Grossman, Dave, author
  • Hamilton, Laurell K. (born 1963), horror/fantasy author
  • Jones, Lauren E. (born 1989), historian, novelist
  • Mathis, Deborah, (????- ), journalist and author
  • McGehee, Peter (1955–1991), novelist
  • Portis, Charles (born 1933), novelist
  • Starr, John Robert (1927–2000), journalist
  • Woodward, C. Vann (1908–1999), historian

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    “Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to write catapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.”
    —Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)

    “Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat and potatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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