The future of southern letters

1952

James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, Byrd, William, John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg

1913

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1918

Arthur Quiller-Couch

1899

Arthur Symons, Richard Ellmann, Jeremy Mark Robinson

1890

Andrew Lang, Gabriel Jaloto

1980

Stephen King

1912

Arthur Machen

2000

H.P. Lovecraft

1919

Albert Mordell

1973

James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden, Robert O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Bradford, John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Esther Edwards, Taylor, Edward, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Buber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, James Wilson Pennington, Henry Timrod, Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Prudencio De Pereda, Carson McCullers, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Americo Paredes, E. B. White, George Santayana, Art Buchwald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, John Dos Passos, Edgar Lee Masters, Jesse Stuart, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, Luis Munoz Marin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Auden, Allen Tate, Kenneth Fearing, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Eberhart, Margaret Walker, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Davis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Stafford, Henry Dumas, Mona Van Duyn, Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Victor Hernández Cruz