List of People From South Dakota - Authors and Poets

Authors and Poets

  • Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American Book Award winning poet, writer, South Dakota resident 1990–1994, and 1996-current; lived in Rapid City, Wagner, Kyle, Porcupine, Sioux Falls...
  • Elizabeth Cook-Lynn author.
  • Pete Dexter
  • David Allan Evans (born 1940), poet laureate of South Dakota
  • Joseph Hansen (1923–2004), author, best known for mystery novels; born in Aberdeen
  • Cameron Hawley (1905–1969), author, Executive Suite, Cash McCall; born in Howard
  • Patrick Hicks (born 1970), poet/writer, Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College
  • Johan Andreas Holvik (1880–1960), author and professor at Concordia College (Minnesota)
  • Adam Johnson (July 12, 1967), writer, born in South Dakota, Lakota heritage, author of The Orphan Master's Son (2012)
  • Bill Johnson (born late 1950s), science fiction writer; born in South Dakota
  • Herbert Arthur Krause (1905–1976), American historian
  • Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), journalist, travel writer, novelist; born in De Smet
  • Gaylord Larsen (born 1932), mystery writer; born in Canova
  • Joseph Marshall III (born on Rosebud Reservation) Pen Award winning author. Co-Founder of Sinte Gleska College.
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), author, best known for Little House on the Prairie; lived in De Smet

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