Conrad Aiken

Raymond Andrews

Toni Cade Bambara

Coleman Barks

Vereen Bell

Furman Bisher

Michael Bishop

Roy Blount Jr.

David Bottoms

Elias Boudinot

Valerie Boyd

Taylor Branch

Jericho Brown

Robert Burch

Olive Ann Burns

Erskine Caldwell

Jimmy Carter

Brainard Cheney

Pearl Cleage

James Cobb

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Pat Conroy

Alfred Corn

Harry Crews

James Dickey

W.E.B. Du Bois

John T. Edge

Henry W. Grady

Melissa Fay Greene

Joel Chandler Harris

Julia Collier Harris

Paul Hemphill

Mary Hood

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Tayari Jones

Terry Kay

James Patrick Kilgo

John Oliver Killens

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sidney Lanier

John Lewis

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

Thomas Lux

Clarence Major

Carson McCullers

Ralph Emerson McGill

James Alan McPherson

Johnny Mercer

Caroline Miller

Judson Mitcham

Margaret Mitchell

Sue Monk Kidd

Frances Newman

Flannery O'Connor

Eugenia Price

Janisse Ray

Byron Herbert Reece

Ferrol Sams

Cynthia Shearer

Bill Shipp

Celestine Sibley

Anne Rivers Siddons

Lillian Smith

A. E. Stallings

John Stone

Jean Toomer

Natasha Trethewey

Alfred Uhry

Alice Walker

Walter Francis White

Bailey White

Philip Lee Williams

Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr.

Frank Yerby

Kevin Young