List of People From Mississippi - Writers

Writers

  • Ace Atkins (born 1970) (Oxford)
  • Howard Bahr (born 1946) (Jackson)
  • Frederick Barthelme (born 1943), novelist and professor (Hattiesburg)
  • Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) (Columbia)
  • Lerone Bennett, Jr. (born 1928), editor of Ebony magazine (Clarksdale)
  • Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964), journalist and historian (Leland)
  • Maxwell Bodenheim (1892–1954), poet and novelist (Hermanville)
  • Bruce Brady (1934?–2000), writer, editor of Outdoor Life (Brookhaven)
  • Charlie Braxton, poet and author (McComb)
  • Larry Brown (1951–2004) (Oxford)
  • Jill Conner Browne, author, Sweet Potato Queens (Tupelo)
  • Jack Butler (born 1944) (Alligator)
  • Mary Cain (1904–1984), journalist (Pike County)
  • Hodding Carter II (1907–1972), journalist (Greenville)
  • Hodding Carter III (born 1935), journalist (Greenville)
  • Craig Claiborne (1920–2000), food writer (Sunflower)
  • Mart Crowley (born 1935), playwright (Vicksburg)
  • Borden Deal (1922–1985), novelist and short story writer (Pontotoc)
  • Ben Domenech (born 1981), conservative writer and blogger (Jackson)
  • David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), historian (Goodman)
  • Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton) (1921-2012), novelist (Greenville)
  • John T. Edge, food writer (Oxford)
  • Woody Evans (born 1971?), technology journalist and short story writer (Hattiesburg)
  • William Clark Falkner (1825–1889), businessman, author (Ripley)
  • John Faulkner (1901–1963), plain-style writer (Ripley)
  • William Faulkner (1897–1962), Nobel laureate (New Albany)
  • Bill Fitzhugh (born 1957) (Jackson)
  • Vic Fleming (born 1951) (Jackson)
  • Shelby Foote (1916–2005) historian and novelist (Greenville)
  • Charles Henri Ford (1913–2002), poet, novelist, editor (Brookhaven)
  • Richard Ford (born 1944) Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer, (Jackson)
  • Lynn Franklin (born 1922), author, police detective
  • Tom Franklin (born 1963), author (Oxford)
  • Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), novelist/poet/short story writer (Vicksburg)
  • John Grisham (born 1955), legal thrillers novelist (Southaven)
  • Barry Hannah (born 1942), novelist and short story writer (Clinton)
  • Charlaine Harris (born 1951), mystery author (Tunica)
  • Thomas Harris (born 1940), author, screenwriter (Rich)
  • Beth Henley (born 1952), playwright and screenwriter (Jackson)
  • M. Carl Holman (1919–1988), author/poet/playwright (Minter City)
  • Greg Iles (born 1960), novelist (Natchez)
  • Greg Keyes (born 1963), science fiction and fantasy writer (Meridian)
  • Muna Lee (1895–1965), author and poet (Raymond)
  • Clinton LeSueur (born 1969), journalist, congressional candidate (Holly Springs)
  • Sam Chu Lin (1939–2006), journalist (Greenville)
  • Anne Moody (born 1940), author, activist (Centreville)
  • Willie Morris (1934–1999), author, editor (Jackson)
  • Jess Mowry (born 1960), writer of books and stories for children and young adults (Starkville)
  • Ellis Nassour (born 1941), journalist, playwright, non-fiction author (Vicksburg)
  • Thomas Naylor (born 1936), author and economist (Jackson)
  • Lewis Nordan (1939–2012), fiction author (Itta Bena)
  • Steven Ozment (born 1939), historian (McComb)
  • Walker Percy (1916–1990), author (Greenville)
  • William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), author (Greenville)
  • Thomas Hal Phillips (1922–2007), author, film actor (Corinth)
  • William Raspberry (born 1935), public affairs columnist (Okolona)
  • Kevin Sessums (born 1956), magazine editor (Forest)
  • Patrick D. Smith (born 1927), novelist (Mendenhall)
  • Robert Bruce Smith, IV (born 1947), author, local historian (Tupelo)
  • Elizabeth Spencer (born 1921), novelist (Carrollton)
  • Kathryn Stockett, novelist (Jackson)
  • William N. Still, Jr. (born 1932), maritime historian (Columbus)
  • Donna Tartt (born 1963), novelist (Greenwood)
  • Clifton Taulbert (born 1945), author and speaker (Glen Allan)
  • Mildred Taylor (born 1943), author (Jackson)
  • Wright Thompson (born 1976), sports writer
  • Natasha Trethewey (born 1966), 2007 Pulitzer Prize poet (Gulfport)
  • Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949), Christian novelist
  • Brenda Venus (born 1947), author (Biloxi)
  • Howard Waldrop (born 1946), science fiction author (Houston)
  • Kevin Walker (born 1983), poet & author (Mendenhall)
  • Jesmyn Ward (born 1977), novelist (DeLisle)
  • Peggy Webb (born 1942), romance novel author (Mooreville)
  • Eudora Welty (1909–2001), novelist, short story writer (Jackson)
  • Neil White III (born 1960), playwright, publisher (Gulfport)
  • Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), playwright (Columbus)
  • Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) (Roxie)
  • Al Young (born 1939), poet/novelist/essayist/screenwriter (Ocean Springs)
  • Stark Young (1881–1963), playwright/novelist/literary critic/essayist (Como)

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    “Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. ...If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)