Georgia Is Loaded With Authors!

I am just amazed, astounded, at how many authors Georgia
has!
We put up a little display called "Read Georgia Authors." While I was researching this project, I could not believe how many authors we have. I used several resources: the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Georgia Center for the Book, Southern Literary Review, and a few others. No matter how many lists I looked at, they were never all the same, of course, But, boy! Did I find a bunch of Georgia authors, living and otherwise.
You've probably heard of these: Julian Bond, Erskine Caldwell, Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn, Pearl Cleage, Max Cleland, Pat Conroy, James Dickey, Lewis Grizzard, Terry Kay, Martin Luther King, Carson McCullers, Zell Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Price, Janisse Ray, Ann Rivers Siddons, Alice Walker, Bailey White, Frank Yerby, and Andrew Jackson Young. And there are many more I didn't name.
But then I found some I didn't know. Do you? Bill Arp, Turner Cassity, Rosemary Daniell, Francis Fontaine, Mary Hood, Grace Lumpkin, Byron Herbert Reece, Bettie Sellers, Francis Orray Ticknor, and Don West. And many more.
If you go to the Georgia Center for the Book website, you can see a list of Georgia authors sorted by last name. And you can also locate them on a map of Georgia by county!
I also found the 2008 list of Georgia Top 25 Books by Living Georgia Writers that all Georgians should read. This list is made up of books set in Georgia or written by a resident or former resident of the state. The list, aimed at enhancing public appreciation of Georgia's rich literary tradition, was chosen by the public and members of the Center's advisory council. The purpose of the Top 25 is to promote reading and discussion and to enhance appreciation of Georgia's rich literary traditions.
We really don't have an excuse for not reading Georgia authors. There are so many of them and so many books they've written that it would take us a lifetime to read them all.
Why not start today and check out a Georgia author's book. It's wonderful stuff to read!
(Source: Georgia Center for the Book, http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/)