The literature of
Georgia,
United States
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, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include
Erskine Caldwell,
Carson McCullers,
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel '' Gone with the Wind'', for which she wo ...
,
Flannery O’Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
She was a Southern writer who often ...
,
Charles Henry Smith
Charles Henry Smith (June 15, 1826 – August 24, 1903) was an American writer and politician from the state of Georgia. He used the pen name Bill Arp for nearly 40 years. He had a national reputation as a homespun humorist during his lifetim ...
, and
Alice Walker.
History
A
printing press
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began operating in
Savannah
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the Canopy (forest), canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to rea ...
in 1762.
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Writers of the antebellum period included
Thomas Holley Chivers
Thomas Holley Chivers (October 18, 1809 – December 18, 1858) was an American doctor-turned-poet from the state of Georgia. He is best known for his friendship with Edgar Allan Poe and his controversial defense of the poet after his death.
Bo ...
(1809-1858),
Richard Henry Wilde
Richard Henry Wilde (September 24, 1789 – September 10, 1847) was a United States representative and lawyer from Georgia.
Biography
Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1789 to Richard Wilde and Mary Newitt, but came to America at age eigh ...
(1789-1847). In 1838 in Augusta,
William Tappan Thompson
William Tappan Thompson (August 31, 1812 – March 24, 1882). He co-founded the ''Savannah Morning News'' in the 1850s, known then as the ''Daily Morning News''. One of his most notable works was ''Major Jones's Courtship,'' an epistolary n ...
founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the ''Mirror.''
Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a planta ...
(1848-1908) wrote the bestselling ''
Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction era Atlanta, a ...
'' stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling
fAfrican American folktales."
Jean Toomer
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism. His reputatio ...
(1894-1967) wrote the novel ''
Cane'' after "a three-month sojourn in
Sparta
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Organizations
The
Georgia Writers Association
Georgia Writers (GW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that works across the state to encourage and strengthen the proficiencies of writers in both the creative and business aspects of the writing life, and to provide networking opportunities ...
formed in 1994.
See also
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:Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
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List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)
This is a list of newspapers in Georgia, US.
List of newspapers
18th century
;Newspapers published in 18th-century Augusta, Georgia:
* ''Augusta Herald''. W., July 17, 1799-Dec. 31, 1800+
* ''Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle And Gazette Of The ...
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:Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction
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:Libraries in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Southern United States literature
Southern United States literature consists of American literature written about the Southern United States or by writers from the region. Literature written about the American South first began during the colonial era, and developed significant ...
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American literary regionalism
American literary regionalism or local color is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid to late 19th century into the early 20th century. In this style of writing, which includes both poetry and prose, the ...
References
Bibliography
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* Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
* Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Nonfiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
* Michael E. Price, Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
* Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Poetry (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
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* Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
External links
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