Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee, a descendent of General Robert E. Lee, was born in
April 1926 in Monroeville Alabama, the same small town where
Truman Capote spent several ...
Truman Capote
... At that time, his mother left him with relatives in
Monroeville , Alabama while she made a life for herself in
New York. ...
Fannie Flagg
Born Patricia Neal in Birmingham Alabama, 1944, Fannie Flagg
had her first taste of success as a writer in 1978...
Walker Percy
Walker Alexander Percy, a writer who was raised in Greenville,
Mississippi, was born on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham,
Alabama.
Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy
was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia. He often credits
his southern mother, a native of Alabama, for his love of
language.
Cassandra King
...Cassandra King is a native of Alabama, where she
taught English and creative writing classes.
Zora Neale Hurston
...born in Notasulga, Alabama, in 1891.
...
Daniel Wallace
... Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Daniel
Wallace is the author of three outstanding novels. ...
Watermelon King book review
... Daniel Wallace takes us back to Ashland,
Alabama, the setting for his first novel, Big Fish.
...
Shirley Grau
... spent a lot of time in her mother’s rural
Alabama. ...
Winston Groom
Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama,
Groom was expected to become a lawyer like his father, but
after editing a literary magazine while attending the
University of
Alabama
... He returned to his native state of Alabama
in 1986 and created his now world-famous character, Forrest
Gump. ... Groom now lives in Point Clear, on the
Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, where he and his wife Anne
Clinton have built a house.
gods in
Alabama
story of
Arlene Fleet, a gal who only wanted to see her hometown of Possett,
Alabama, in her rearview mirror.
Tom Franklin
Thomas G. Franklin was born in Dickinson, Alabama, in 1963. In 1981 he
moved with his
family to Mobile, where he attended the University of South Alabama.
