Writers from Atlanta

Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.

American author and journalist (1900–1949)

American R&B singer (born 1978)

American filmmaker (born 1963)

American filmmaker (born 1957)

American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), known professionally as T.I. or Tip, is an American rapper and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris is credited as a pioneer of the hip-hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. He met local music executive Kawan "KP" Prather in the late 1990s, joining his company Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment — an imprint of Arista and LaFace Records — by 1999. The lukewarm critical and commercial response of his debut studio album, ''I'm Serious'' (2001), led him to part ways the label. He then sign

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, a Tony Award, and a Guinness World Records title. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's mo

American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)

American comedian, actor, host, and writer

American businessman (1945–2020)

American pastor and politician (born 1969)

American screenwriter

US writer

American historian (1914–2004)

American politician (1932–2018)

American journalist, children's writer (1848–1908)

American writer (1923–1997)

American crime writer

Canadian-American Christian apologist (1946–2020)

American novelist (1945-2016)

American philosopher (1926-2018)

American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer

American economist (*1939)

American film maker

American pop music singer-songwriter

American television host and politician (born 1963)

American politician & military officer (born 1961)

American writer

American detective fiction writer

American activist (born 1943)

American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor

American comic book writer and editor (born 1946)

American writer and television producer

American writer

American author of young adult fiction

American columnist

American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)

American writer

American political commentator (born 1951)

American broadcast journalist

American filmmaker and actor

American writer

American author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934)

American art historian, biographer and artist

American film producer (1900–1952)

American writer

American poet and playwright

American film and television director (1923-2003)

American historian

American writer (1920–2010)

American screenwriter (born 1936)

American comedian and actor (born 1952)

American television producer

American-German classical philologist (1862–1942)

American writer and lyricist (1857–1927)

American judge

civil rights leader and sister of Martin Luther King, Jr.

American writer (1922–1995)

Confederate States Army general, politician, minister, historian (1833-1911)