Months ago, she read the zany novel, "Walking Across Egypt," by Clyde Edgerton, a little-known southern writer.

He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer."

Turner, a fiercely independent Southern loyalist and eccentric intellectual, emphasized the work of southern writers, yet stressed that Harris read widely.

Other southern writers, such as popular author John Grisham, rarely write about traditional southern literary issues.

Minor Latham, Barnard College's great southern writer, used to make student playwrights reveal their characters' motivations the minute they stepped onstage.

Mark Childress (born 1957, Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist and southern writer.

Price is classified as a southern writer, as his works are often especially associated with his lifelong home of North Carolina.

It is true that I have published a lot of southern writers, but their subjects often have not been southern at all.

One of the best known southern writers of the 20th century is William Faulkner, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

As with other Nanci Griffith albums she is pictured holding books by and/or about southern writers.