United
States
Links:
U.S.
Literary Map Project
Chicago
/ Hollywood / The South
Alabama
Try:
Robert E. Bell ~ The Butterfly Tree
Mark Childress ~ Crazy in Alabama
William
Cobb
Pat Cunningham Devoto ~ My Last Days as Roy Rogers / Out of the Night
that Covers Me
Fannie Flagg ~ Fried Green Tomatoes
Anne George ~
Southern Sisters Series
Suzanne Hudson ~ In a Temple of Trees
Harper Lee ~ To Kill a Mockingbird
Andrew Lytle ~ At the Moon's Inn / The Long Night
Michael Morris ~ A Place Called Wiregrass
Nancy Pickard ~ The Truth Hurts
Lynn Pruett ~ Ruby River
Howell Raines ~ Whiskey Man
Elise Sanguinetti ~ The Last of the Whitfields
Thomas Stribling ~ The Store
Daniel Wallace ~ Big Fish / Watermelon King
Lella Warren
Links:
Alabama
Authors and Their Works
[To The Top]
Alaska
Try:
Tom Bodett
T.C. Boyle ~ Drop
City
Max Brand ~ Sixteen in Nome
Liam Callanan ~ The Cloud Atlas
Edna Ferber ~ Ice Palace
Sue Henry ~ Alex
Jensen Series
Stan Jones ~
Nathan Active Series
James Michener ~ Alaska
Elwood Reid ~ Midnight Sun
Nora Roberts ~ Northern Lights
Marcia Simpson
Dana Stabenow
John Straley ~ Cecil Younger series
Links:
Popular Alaskana
Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography
[To The Top]
Arizona
Try:
Garrison Allen
Stella Pope Duarte ~ Let their Spirits Dance
Susan Elderkin ~ Sunset over Chocolate Mountain
Douglas Hirt ~ A Good Town
J.A. Jance ~
Joanna Brady Series
Murad Kalam ~ Night Journey
Barbara Kingsolver ~ Animal Dreams / The Bean Trees
Jayne Ann Krentz ~ Eye of the Beholder / Light in Shadow
Bentley Little
JoAnn Mapson ~ Loving Chloe
Linda Lael Miller ~ Don't Look Now
Marguerite Noble ~ Devil's Claw
Lisa Michaels ~ Grand Ambition
Donald Rawley ~ The Night Bird Cantata
Harriet Rochlin ~ On Her Way Home
Glendon Swarthout ~ Cadillac Cowboys
Nancy E. Turner ~ These is my Words
Betty Webb ~ Desert Noir
Joy Williams ~ The Quick and the Dead
[To The Top]
Arkansas
Try:
Earlene Fowler ~ Arkansas Traveler
John
Grisham ~ A Painted House
Donald Harington ~
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks / With
Charlaine Harris
~ Lily Bard Series
Joan Hess ~
Maggody series
Douglas C. Jones ~ Elkhorn Tavern
Norris Church Mailer ~ Windchill Summer
Bernice L. McFadden ~ Sugar / This Bitter Earth
April Reynolds ~ Knee-Deep in Wonder
Grif Stockely ~
Gideon Page Series
Links:
Arkansas
Authors
[To The Top]
California
Try:
Rigoberto Gonzalez ~ Crossing Vines
Elizabeth F. Hailey ~ Home Free
Alice Hobart ~ The Cup and the Sword
Denis Johnson ~ Already Dead
Jack London ~ The Valley of the Moon
Frank Norris ~ The Octopus
Luis J. Rodriguez ~ Music of the Mill
Leslie Schwartz ~ Angels Crest
John Steinbeck ~ East of Eden / Grapes of Wrath
[To The Top]
Hollywood
See
Also Film Fiction
Try:
Steve Allen ~ Die Laughing
Peter Bart ~ Dangerous Company
Jack Bludis ~ The Big Switch
Steven Bochco ~ Death by Hollywood
D.L. Bruin ~ Ten Percent
Amanda Cockrell ~
Pomegranate Seed
Jackie Collins ~ Hollywood Divorces / Hollywood Wives
Hilary de Vries ~ So 5 Minutes Ago
F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Last Tycoon
David Freeman ~ It's all True
Ron Goulart ~
Groucho Marx Series
Jane Heller ~ Lucky Stars
Douglas McEwan ~ My Lush Life
Martha Sherrill ~ My Last Movie Star
M. Dion Thompson ~ Walk Like a Natural Man
Gore Vidal ~ Hollywood
Bruce Wagner ~ Still Holding
Nathaniel West ~ The Day of the Locust
Links:
California
Authors
California
Authors Directory
California
Book Awards
[To The Top]
Colorado
Try:
Hal Borland ~ When the Legends Die
Margaret Coel ~ The Dream Stalker
Joanne Greenberg ~ Simple Gifts
Kent Haruf ~ Eventide / Plainsong / The Tie that Binds
Christine T.
Jorgensen ~ Stella series
James Michener ~ Centennial
Barbara Samuel ~ No Place like Home
Jennie Shortridge ~ Riding with the Queen
Ann Zwinger ~ Beyond the Aspen Grove
[To The Top]
Connecticut
Try:
Maureen Howard ~ Natural History
Rick Moody ~ The Ice Storm
Thomas Tryon ~ The Wings of the Morning
John Updike ~ Marry Me
Richard Yates ~
A Good School / Revolutionary Road
[To The Top]
Delaware
Try:
Tom Coyne ~ A Gentleman's Game
David Taylor ~ Lights Across the Delaware
[To The Top]
Florida
Try:
Jesse Earl Bowden ~ Look and Tremble
Tim Dorsey
Connie May Fowler ~ River of Hidden Dreams
Carl Hiaasen
Jilliane Hoffman ~ Retribution
Zora Neale Hurston ~ Their Eyes were Watching God
John D. MacDonald ~ A Flash of Green
Peter Matthiessen ~ Killing Mister Watson
Susan Carol McCarthy ~ Lay that Trumpet in our Hands / True Fires
S.F. Mickle ~ Replacing Dad
Marjorie Rawlings ~ The Yearling
Patrick D. Smith ~ A Land Remembered
Joy Williams ~ Breaking and Entering
Links:
Florida
Fiction
[To The Top]
Georgia
Try:
Tina McElroy Ansa ~ Baby of the Family
John Berendt ~ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Olive Burns ~ Cold Sassy Tree
Erskine Caldwell ~ God's Little Acre / Tobacco Road
Pearl Cleage ~ What Looks Like Carzy on an Ordinary Day
James Dickey ~ Deliverance
Jim Grimsley ~ Dream Boy
Charlaine Harris
~ Aurora Teagarden Series
Ad Hudler ~ Southern Living
Terry Kay ~ To Dance with the White Dog
Carson McCullers ~ A Member of the Wedding
Delores Phillips ~ The Darkest Child
Eugenia Price ~ Lighthouse
Ferrol Sams ~ Run with the Horsemen
Anne Rivers Sidons ~ Peachtree Road
Deborah Smith ~ A Place to Call Home / Sweet Hush
Alice Walker ~ The Color Purple
[To The Top]
Hawaii
Try:
Deborah Turell Atkinson ~ Primitive Secrets
Alan Brennert ~ Moloka'i
James Jones ~ From Here to Eternity
Norman Katkov ~ Blood and Orchids
Susanna Moore ~ The Whiteness of Bones
Paul Theroux ~ Hotel Honolulu
Lois-Ann
Yamanaka
Richard Ziegler ~ Red Sun
[To The Top]
Idaho
Try:
Christina Adam ~ Love and Country
Kim Barnes ~ Finding Caruso
Carol Ryrie Brink ~ Buffalo Coat
Harold Coyle ~ Against All Enemies
Vardis Fisher ~ Dark Bridwell / In Tragic Light / Mountain Man
Wendell McCall ~ Dead Aim
Stephen E. McDonald ~ Bitterroot
Heather Parkinson ~ Across Open Ground
William Gilbert Roberts ~ Idaho Grown
Thomas Savage ~ The Sheep Queen
Stuart Woods ~ Heat
[To The Top]
Illinois
Try:
Martha Bergland ~ A Farm Under a Lake
Ray Bradbury ~ Dandelion Wine
Thomas E. Eno ~ Deep Waters
William Maxwell ~ So Long, See you Tomorrow
Sharon Rolens ~ Worthy's Town / What Else but Home
Thornton Wilder ~ The Eight Day
Chicago
Mysteries Set in Chicago
Science Fiction Set in Chicago
Try:
Saul Bellow ~ The Dean's December
James Carroll ~ Memorial Bridge
Ana Castillo ~ Peel My Love Like an Onion
Maxine Chernoff ~ American Heaven
James Conrad ~ Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago
Barbara Croft ~ Moon's Crossing
Michael Croft ~ Flight Dreams
Theodore Dreiser ~ Sister Carrie
Martin Duberman ~ Haymarket
Stuart Dybek ~ I Sailed with Magellan
Michael Allen Dymmoch ~ The Man Who Understood Cats
James T. Farrell ~ Studs Lonigan
Ardella Garland ~ Details at Ten
Andrew Greeley
Jane Hamilton ~ Disobedience
E. Lynn Harris ~ And This too shall Pass
Yolanda Joe
Grace Mark ~ The Dream Seekers
Judy Markey ~ The Daddy Clock
Jacquelyn Mitchard ~ The Deep End of the Ocean
John R. Powers ~ The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues
Shawn Shiflett ~ Hidden Place
April Sinclair ~ Coffee Will Make You Black
Harry Stein ~ Hoopla
Links:
Illinois
Authors
[To The Top]
Indiana
Indiana
Authors
(L) - Some titles available in the Michigan
City Public Library
George
Ade(L)
Jacqueline Aeby
(aka Jocelyn Carew, aka Vanessa Grey (L)
Dwight LeRoy Armstong
Charles
Beard
Eunice Bullard Beecher
Hoagy Carmichael
Jared
Carter
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Jeanne M. Dams
Jim Davis ~ Garfield series
Gene
DeWeese (L)
Lloyd C. Douglas
(L)
Theodore Dreiser
(L)
Marilyn Durham
Darlene Mathis Eddy
Edward
Eggleston
George Cary Eggleston
Janet Flanner
Jean Garrigue
Gordon Gordon
Phillip Gulley (L)
A.B.
Guthrie Jr.
Baynard Rush Hall
Dorothy Drumm Hamilton
Joseph Hayes (aka Joseph H. Arnold)
Kin
Hubbard
(aka Frank McKinney)
Mabel Leigh Hunt
Darlene Johnson
Adam Kennedy
Emily Kimbrough (L)
Haven Kimmel (L)
Caroline Virginia Krout(aka Caroline Brown)
Mary
Hannah Krout
Don Kurtz
Michael
Lewin (L)
Eli
Lilly
Ross Lockridge Jr.
(L)
LeRoy
Oliver MacLeod
Charles
Major
Michael
Martone
George
Barr McCutcheon
Ralph
McInerny (L)
Dale Messick
Joaquin
Miller
William
Vaughn Moody
Susan
Neville
Anna
Nicholas
Meredith
Nicholson
Paul Osborn
William
J. Palmer (L)
Roger
Pfingston
Cole
Porter
Ernie
Pyle
Kate
Milner Rabb
John R. Riggs (L)
James
Whitcomb Riley (L)
Scott
Russell Sanders
Valerie Sayers
Moselle Schaffer
Jean Shepherd (L)
Felix
Stefanile
Rex Stout (L)
Gene
Stratton-Porter (L)
Booth
Tarkington (L)
Edwin
Way Teale
James
Alexander Thom (L)
Maurice
Thompson (L)
Kurt
Vonnegut (L)
David
Wagoner
Dan Wakefield (L)
Lew Wallace (L)
Jessamyn
West (L)
Marguerite
Young
Ann
Haymond Zwinger
Links: Our
Land, Our Literature
[To The Top]
Set
in Indiana
James Carlos Blake ~
Handsome Harry (Michigan City-State Prison)
Pope Brock ~ Indiana Gothic
Susan Crandall ~ Back
Roads / The Road Home
Jeanne M Dams
Cathy Day ~ The Circus in
Winter
Lee Driver ~
Full moon bloody moon
Thomas Fleming ~ When this cruel war is over
Jan de Hartog ~ The Peculiar People
Sara
Hoskinson Frommer ~ Murder
and Sullivan ~ The
Vanishing Violinist
Patricia
Henley ~ In the river sweet
Joe Hensley
~ Robak's Witch
Laird Hunt ~ Indiana, Indiana
Haven Kimmel ~ The solace
of leaving early / Something Rising
Ross Lockridge ~ Raintree County
Ralph
McInerney
Marjorie Reynolds ~ The Starlite Drive-In
Barbara Shoup ~ Faithful Women
Gene
Stratton Porter
James A. Thom ~ The Red Heart
Ronald Tierney ~ The Concrete Pillow ~ The Iron Glove
Jessamyn
West ~ The friendly persuasion
[To The Top]
Iowa
Try:
Barbara Esstman ~ The Other Anna
Donald
Harstad ~ Carl Houseman series
Peter Hedges ~ An Ocean in Iowa / What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Jim Heynen ~ The Boy's House
Beth Helms ~ American Wives
W.P. Kinsella ~ The Iowa Baseball Confederacy / Shoeless Joe
Patrick Moore ~ Iowa
Leslie Pietrzyk ~ A Year and a
Day
Jane Smiley ~ A Thousand Acres
Robert James Waller ~ The Bridges of Madison County / Slow Waltz in
Cedar Bend
Links:
Iowa Authors
Iowa Fiction
[To The Top]
Kansas
Try:
Truman Capote ~ In Cold Blood
Evan S. Connell ~ Mr. Bridge / Mrs. Bridge
J.M. Hayes ~ Prairie Gothic
Clayton L. Hogg ~ The Meridian Two
Langston Hughes ~ Not without Laughter
Rhoda Lerman ~ God's Ear
Laura Moriarty ~ The Center of Everything
Scott Phillips ~ Cottonwood
Martin Schenk ~ A Small Dark Place
Paulina Simons ~ Tully
Jeanne Williams ~ No Roof but Heaven
Vinita Hampton Wright ~ Velma Still Cooks in Leeway
Links:
Kansas
Authors
[To The Top]
Kentucky
Try:
Harriette Arnow ~ The Dollmaker / The Hunter's Horn
Janice Holt Giles ~ Hannah Fowler
Lisa Kay Hauser ~ Turn Back Time
Bobbie Ann Mason ~ In Country
Ed McClanahan ~ The Natural Man
Derek Robinson ~ Kentucky Blues
James Still ~ River of Earth
Jesse
Stuart
John Yount ~ Hardcastle
Links:
Kentucky Literature
[To The Top]
Louisiana
Try:
John Ed Bradley ~ Restoration
James Lee Burke
George Washington Cable ~ The Grandissimes
Ernest J. Gaines ~ Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Lesson Before
Dying
Shirley Ann Grau ~ Keeper of the House
Julie L'Enfant ~ The
Dancers of Sycamore Street
Penn
Williamson ~ Daman Rourke Series
Links:
Contemporary Louisiana Authors
Louisiana
Center for the Book
[To The Top]
Maine
Try:
Carolyn Chute ~ The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Sarah Orne Jewett ~ The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Beth Martin ~ The One True Ocean
Elisabeth Ogilvie ~ Summer of the Osprey
Richard Preston ~ The Boat of Dreams
Richard Russo ~ Empire Falls
Anne Rivers Siddons ~ Colony
Links:
Maine Writers Index
[To The Top]
Maryland
Try:
Petrina Aubol ~ Drive Time
John Barth ~ The Sot-Weed Factor
Rachel Carson ~ Silent Spring
Patricia Gaffney ~ Flight Lessons
Barry Levinson ~ Sixty-Six
James Michener ~ Chesapeake
Anne Tyler ~ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Links:
Famous
Marylanders: writers, poets, editors & newspaperpersons
[To The Top]
Massachusetts
Try:
Bob Flaherty ~ Puff
David D. Nolta ~ Grave Circle
Robert B. Parker
Jessica Shattuck ~ The Hazards of Good Breeding
Susan Richards Shreve ~ Queen of Hearts
Anthony Weller ~ The Siege of Salt Cove
Nancy Zaroulis ~ Massachusetts
[To The Top]
Michigan
Try:
Lorna J. Cook ~ Departures
Boyle T. Coraghessan ~ Road to Welville
Joseph
Heywood ~ Woods Cop Series
Linda Howard ~ Mr Perfect
Henry Kisor ~ Season's Revenge
Elmore Leonard ~ Mr Paradise
Thomas Mallon ~ Dewey Defeats Truman
A.J. Verdelle ~ The Good Negress
Mildred Walker ~ Fireweed
Links:
Michigan Authors and
Illustrators
[To The Top]
Minnesota
Try:
Richard Bausch ~ Mr. Field's Daughter
Rachel Coyne ~ Whiskey Love
Traci DePree ~ A Can of Peas
Leif Enger ~ Peace Like A River
Tami Hoag
Wayne Johnson ~ The Devil You Know
Marya Hornbacher ~ The Center of Winter
Garrison
Keillor
Lorna
Landvik
Chuck Logan ~ Absolute Zero
John Sandford
LaVyrle Spencer ~ Home Song
Barton Sutter ~ Cold Comfort
Robert James Waller ~ Border Music
Links:
Minnesota Author
Biographies Project
[To The Top]
Mississippi
Try:
Ace Atkins
William
Faulkner
Phil Hardwick
Lewis Nordan ~ Music of the Swamp / Wolf Whistle
Gary Penley ~ Jubal
Donna Tartt ~ The Little Friend
Eudora
Welty
Steve
Yarbrough
Links:
Mississippi
Writers
The Mississippi Writers
Page
[To The Top]
Missouri
Try:
Barbara Esstman ~ Night Ride Home
Fannie Flagg ~ Standing in the Rainbow
Dorothy Garlock ~ Edge of Town / High on a Hill / A Place Called
Rainwater
Elaine Kagan ~ The Girls
MacKinlay Kantor ~ Bugle Ann Series
Jean Marcy
Ntozake Shange ~ Betsey Brown
Mary Troy ~ The Alibi Cafe
Links:
Missouri Authors Directory
[To The Top]
Montana
Try:
Mary Clearman Blew ~ Sister Coyote
Peter Bowen
Ivan Doig
Jasen Emmons ~ Cowboy Angst
Nicholas Evans ~ The Horse Whisperer
A.B. Guthrie Jr. ~ The Big Sky / The Way West
William Kittridge ~ The Last Best Place
Norman Maclean ~ A River Runs through It / Young Men and Fire
Thomas McGuane ~ The Cadence of Grass
Nora Roberts ~ Montana Sky
Russell Rowland ~ In Open Spaces
Mildred Walker ~ Winter Wheat
Larry Watson ~ White Crosses
/ Justice / Montana 1948
James Welch ~ Fools Crow / Winter in the Blood
Links:
Montana Center for the Book
[To The Top]
Nebraska
Try:
Bess Streeter Aldrich ~ Spring Came on Forever
Willa Cather
Dianne Gray ~ Holding Up the Earth
Ron Hansen ~ Nebraska
Jim Harrison ~ Dalva / The Road Home
Tom McNeal ~ Goodnight Nebraska
Wright
Morris
Mari Sandoz
David Wiltse ~ The Hangman's Knot
Links:
Nebraska
Center for Writers
[To The Top]
Nevada
Try:
Walter Van Tilburg Clark ~ The Ox-Bow Incident
Michael Dibdin ~ Thanksgiving
Judith Freeman ~ A Desert of Pure Feeling
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera ~ Luck of the Draw
Art Gibney ~ Skin of the Earth
Shaun T. Griffin ~ The River Underground
Robert Laxalt ~ A Man in the Wheatfield
Larry McMurty ~ The Desert Rose
Linda Lael Miller ~ The Last Chance Cafe / Megan
Bill Pronzini ~ Blue Lonesome
Brian Rouff ~ Dice Angel
Barbara
Samuel ~ Lady Luck's Map of Vegas
[To The Top]
New
Hampshire
Try:
Leonard Chang ~ Dispatches from the Cold
Barbara Delinsky ~ Lake News
Ernest
Hebert
John Irving ~ The Hotel New Hampshire / A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jeffrey Lent ~ Lost Nation
Grace Metalious ~ Peyton Place
Bill Morrissey ~ Edson
May Sarton ~ Kinds of Love
Anita Shreve ~ Sea Glass
Links:
New Hampshire
Authors
[To The Top]
New
Jersey
Try:
Janet Evanovich
~ Stepanie Plum Series
Thomas Fleming ~ Liberty Tavern
Karen Swee ~ Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder
Joseph Tropiano ~ Big Night
John Updike ~ The Poorhouse Fair
[To The Top]
New
Mexico
Try:
Richard Bradford ~ Red Sky at Morning
Jo-Ann Mapson ~ Blue Rodeo
Michael McGarrity ~
Kevin Kerney Series
Conrad Richter ~ The Lady
Barbara Samuel ~ A Piece of Heaven
Walter
Satterthwait ~ Joshua Croft Series
Martin Cruz Smith ~ Stallion Gate
[To The Top]
New
York
See
Also New York City
Try:
Barbara
Block ~ Robin Light Mysteries
James Brady ~ Gin Lane
Nancy Whitman Geary ~ Misfortune
William
J. Kennedy ~ Albany series
Richard Russo ~ Nobody's Fool / The Risk Pool
Links:
New York State
Writers Institute
[To The Top]
New
York City
Try:
Charlotte Burley ~ Cosmopolitan Girls
Michelle Cunnah ~ 32AA
John Dos Passos ~ Manhattan Transfer
Elizabeth Gaffney ~ Metropolis
Eliot Greebee ~ By the time you finish this book, You might be dead
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ~ After
Varley O'Connor ~ A Company of Three
David Prete ~ Say That to my Face
Adriana Trigiani ~ Lucia, Lucia
Edith Wharton ~ Age of Innocence / The House of Mirth
[To The Top]
North
Carolina
Try:
Kay Gibbons ~ Virtuous Woman
Jack Riggs ~ When the Finch Rises
Thomas Wolfe ~ Look Homeward Angel
Links:
North Carolina Novels
[To The Top]
North
Dakota
Try:
Janet Dailey ~ Lord of the High Lonesome
Louise Erdrich
Debbie Macomber ~ Dakota series
Susan Power ~ The Grass Dancer
Carrie Young ~ Nothing to do but Stay / The Wedding Dress
[To The Top]
Ohio
Try:
Esther Royer Ayers ~
Flight of the Herons
Evie Yoder Miller ~ Eyes at the Window
Toni Morrison ~ Sula
Terry Reed ~ The Full Cleveland
Conrad Richter ~ The Town / The Trees
Helen H. Santmyer ~ And the Ladies of the Club
Links:
Central
Ohio Fiction Writers
[To The Top]
Oklahoma
Try:
Dayna Dunbar ~ The Saints and Sinners of Okay County
Edna Ferber ~ Cimarron
Edward Lanham ~ The Stricklands
Billie Letts
Curtiss Ann
Matlock ~ Valentine Sisters Series
Speer Morgan ~ Belle Starr
C.W. Smith ~ Buffalo Nickel
Links:
Oklahoma Book
Awards
Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma
Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame
[To The Top]
Oregon
Try:
Robin Cody ~ Ricochet River
Diane Hammond ~ Going to Bend / Homesick Creek
Katy King ~ City of Suspects
Tom Lang ~ Coffee
Philip
Margolin
Jim Patton ~ The Shake
Joel Redon ~ If Not on Earth, Then in Heaven / The Road to Zena
Clyde Rice ~ Nordi's Gift
Joyce Weatherford ~ Heart of the Beast
Kate Wilhelm ~
Barbara Holloway Series
[To The Top]
Pennsylvania
Try:
Jennifer Chiaverini ~ Elm Creek
Series
James T. Farrell ~ The Financier
Fern Michaels ~ Late Bloomer
Evie Yoder Miller ~
Eyes at the Window
Tamar Myers ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Series
Brad Smith ~ Busted Flush
John Updike ~ Rabbit Run
Links:
Literary Map
of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Authors
[To The Top]p
Rhode
Island
Try:
Luanne Rice ~ Dance with Me
Anita Shreve ~ Where or When
Edith Wharton ~ Age of Innocence
Links:
Literary
Map of Rhode Island
[To The Top]
The
South
Try:
James Lee Burke
Olive Anne Burns ~ Cold Sassy Tree
Clyde Edgerton
William
Faulkner
Fannie
Flagg
Ernest J. Gaines
Ellen Gilchrist
Carolyn Haines
Jan Karon
Barbara
Kingsolver ~ Prodigal Summer
Bev Marshall ~ Right as Rain
Sharon McCrumb
Larry McMurtry
Joan
A. Mendlicott
Robert Morgan
Anne Rivers
Siddons
Deborah
Smith
Lee Smith
Adriana
Trigiani
Augusta Trobaugh
Eudora
Welty
Links:
Library of Southern
Literature
The Southern Scribe
[To The Top]
South
Carolina
Try:
William Baldwin ~ The Hard to Catch Mercy
Pam Durban ~ The Laughing Place
William Price Fox ~ Ruby Red
Dorothea Benton Frank
Nora Roberts ~ Carolina Moon
Anne Rivers Siddons ~ Low Country
Susan Straight ~ I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen
[To The Top]
South Dakota
Try:
Harold Adams ~
Carl Wilcox Series
Adam Johnson ~ Parasites Like Us
Dan O'Brien ~ Brendan Prairie / In the Center of the Nation
Barbara Oaks ~ Wild Flowers and how They Grew
O.E. Rolvaag ~ Giants in the Earth
Douglas Unger ~ Leaving the Land
Links:
South Dakota Literary
Map
[To The Top]
Tennessee
Try:
Deborah
Adams ~ Jesus Creek series
Madison
Smartt Bell ~ Anything Goes / Soldier's Joy
Eugene Davis ~ From the Horse's Mouth
Cameron
Judd ~ The Overmountain Men / The Border Men / The Canebrake Men
Cormac McCarthy
Sharon McCrumb
Helen Craig Smith ~ Forever the twain shall Meet
Peter
Taylor ~ A Summons to Memphis / In the Tennessee Country
Links:
Tennessee Authors
Tennessee
Writers Project
[To The Top]
Texas
Try:
Tracy Daugherty ~ Axeman's Jazz
Anne Estevis ~ Down Garrapata Road
Edna Ferber ~ Texas
Joe R. Lansdale ~ Sunset and Sawdust
Larry McMurtry ~ Some Can Whistle
Elizabeth Maul Schwartz ~ The Texicans
Links:
Contemporary Texas Fiction
Historical Texas Fiction
[To The Top]
Utah
Try:
Steven M. Cannon ~ Glen Canyon
Thomas H. Cook ~ Tabernacle
Judith Freeman ~ Red Water
John Gates ~ Brigham's Day
John Linton ~ Vermillion Cliffs
[To The Top]
Vermont
Try:
Chris Bohjalian ~ Buffalo Soldier
Thomas Christopher Greene ~ Mirror Lake
Mary Hays ~ Learning to Drive
Robert Newton Peck ~ A Day no Pigs Would Die
[To The Top]
Virginia
Try:
Ellen Glasgow ~ Vein of Iron
Dennis McFarland ~ Prince Edward
Lee Smith ~ Fair and Tender Ladies
William Styron ~ The Confessions of Nat Turner
Adriana Trigiani ~ Big Stone Gap / Big Cherry Holler / Milk Glass Moon
Try:
Henry Adams ~ Democracy
Thomas Mallon ~ Two Moons
Mark Merlis ~ Man About Town
Carly Phillips ~ The Heartbreaker
Gore Vidal ~ Washington D.C.
[To The Top]
Washington
Try:
Hazard Adams ~ Home
Annie Dillard ~ The Living
Deborah
Donnelly ~ Carnegie Kincaid Series
David J. Duncan ~ The Brothers K
Earl
Emerson ~ Thomas Black series
Jane Green ~ Seattle Green
David Guterson ~ East of the Mountains / Snow Falling On Cedars
J.A.
Jance ~ J.P. Beaumont series
Robert Newman ~ The Fountain at the Center of the World
Jess Walter
[To The Top]
West
Virginia
Try:
Denise Giardina ~ Storming Heaven / The Unquiet Earth
Davis Grubb ~ Fools' Parade
Brad Kessler ~ Lick Creek
Keith Maillard ~ The Clarinet Polka
Michael Palmer ~ Fatal
John Sayles ~ Union Dues
Links:
Literary
Map of West Virginia
MountainLit
[To The Top]
Wisconsin
Try:
Anthony
Bukoski
Ethan Canin ~ Blue River
William McPherson ~ Testing the Current
Mary Relindes Ellis ~ The Turtle Warrior
Steve Thayer ~ The Wheat Field
Links:
Wisconsin
Center for the Book
Wyoming
Try:
C.J. Box ~ Joe Pickett series
Marilyn Durham ~ The Man Who loved Cat Dancing
Stephen Grace ~ Under Cottonwoods
Jack Warner Schaefer ~ Shane
Owen Wister ~ The Virginian
Links:
Wyoming Center for
the Book
Wyoming
Authors
[To The Top]
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