Category
page 1Novelists from Mississippi

William Faulkner
American writer (1897-1962)
Alice Walker
American author and activist (born 1944)
John Grisham
American writer (born 1955)

Donna Tartt
American writer
Richard Wright
American novelist and poet (1908–1960)
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001)

Stacey Abrams
American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author (born 1973)

Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
Richard Ford
American novelist and short story writer

Walker Percy
American philosophical novelist

Rebecca Walker
American writer

Kathryn Stockett
US writer

Charlaine Harris
American writer
Jesmyn Ward
American writer
Angie Thomas
American author
Greg Iles
American novelist
Nevada Barr
American novelist
Shelby Foote
American novelist, historian (1916-2005)
Margaret Walker
American poet and writer (1915-1998)

Barry Hannah
Short story writer, novelist, professor (1942–2010)

Catherine Lacey
American writer
Ellen Gilchrist
American writer (1935–2024)
Ace Atkins
American writer

Charles Henri Ford
American photographer and writer (1913–2002)

Chuck Pfarrer
American writer
Elizabeth Spencer
American writer
Ben Ames Williams
American writer, 1889–1953
Mildred D. Taylor
American novelist, children's and young adult writer (born 1943)
Joseph Holt Ingraham
Novelist, teacher (1809-1860)

Larry Brown
American novelist (1951–2004)
Stark Young
American writer (1881-1963)

Ellen Douglas
American writer (1921–2012)
Maxwell Bodenheim
American writer (1892–1954)
John Faulkner
American author and artist; brother of author William Faulkner (1901-1963)
Eric L. Harry
American lawyer
Al Young
American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter (1939–2021)

Mark Richard
American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet
Sarah Gibson Humphreys
American author, suffragist
Thomas Hal Phillips
American actor (1922-2007)

Carolyn Haines
American writer