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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“We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our “white mythology.” Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.”
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