Contemporary Southern

• Madison Smartt Bell
• Wendell Berry
• Larry Brown
• Fred Chappell
• Pat Conroy
• Clyde Edgerton
• Fannie Flagg
• Ernest Gaines 
• Kaye Gibbons
• Ellen Gilchrist
• Shirley Ann Grau
• Barry Hannah
• Josephine Humphreys
• Jill McCorkle
• Michael Malone
• Margaret Maron

• Bobbie Ann Mason
• T. R. Pearson
• Terry Pringle
• Reynolds Price
• Ferrol Sams
• Dori Sanders
• Valerie Sayers
• Donald Secreast
• Mary Lee Settle
• Louise Shivers
• Anne Rivers Siddons
• Elizabeth Spencer
• Peter Hillsman Taylor
• Anne Tyler
• Eudora Welty