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Literature of Georgia
Georgia writers vary
in their scope, vision and style, and ranges from classics like Gone with the Wind, to thriving new
works like The Mermaid Chair!
Sue Monk Kidd
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Sue
Monk Kidd grew up in Southwest Georgia. In 1970, she
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Flannery O'Connor
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Flannery O’Connor, born in Savannah, Georgia,
attended the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop before
going to New York. ... |
Linda Bloodworth Thomason
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... and writing the hit-television series, Designing
Women, a witty character-driven sit-com starring four
independent minded southern women in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Alice Walker
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Alice Walker was born the youngest of eight children in
Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. She went to college on a
scholarship and rushed ... |
Pat Conroy
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... Pat Conroy. Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945,
in Atlanta, Georgia. ... |
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Cynthia Shearer
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Shearer: I was born at Westover AFB in Massachusetts and
my parents returned to their hometown, Alapaha,
Georgia, (just down the road from Harry Crews,
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Lillian Smith
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Smith began her literary career writing for a journal
called Pseudopodia (1936), The North Georgia
Review (1937 - 1941) and South Today (1942 - 1945). |
Carson McCullers
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Carson McCullers was born in 1917 in Columbus, Georgia.
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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell was
born in Atlanta, Georgia
in November of 1900. She lived in Atlanta throughout her
life.
James Dickey
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James Lafayette Dickey, one of American’s most
distinguished poets and winner of the National
Book Award, was born in 1923 in Atlanta,
Georgia. ... |
Southern
Literary Review Newsletter July August 2005
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Georgia is home to some of the south's
most noteworthy authors. Some of our most
memorable stories have been set in Georgia.
The first that author that ... |
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