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Mississippi Writers and Artists

Stephen Ambrose - Bay St. Louis - Writer

Margaret Walker Alexander, Jackson - Poet/Novelist

Walter Anderson, Ocean Springs - Artist

John Armistead, Tupelo - Writer

William Alexander Attaway, Greenville - Writer

James Autry, Hickory Flat/Ashland - Writer

Lucille Baker, Louisville - Artist

Angela Ball, Hattiesburg - Writer

Richard Barthe, Bay St. Louis - Artist

Navada Barr, Clinton - Author

Fredrick Barthelme, Hattiesburg - Writer

Willie Barton, Union - Artist

Jack Bass, Oxford - Writer

Blanche Batson, Pike County - Artist

Charles Bell, Greenville - Writer

Leon Bennett, Clarksdale - Writer

Charles Berry, Sr., Pearl - Artist

Dusti Bonge, Biloxi - Artist

Richard Booth, Water Valley - Artist

Larry Brown, Oxford - Writer

Bill Buchanan, Meridian - Writer

Jack Butler, Alligator - Writer

Paul Campbell, Edwards - Artist/Photographer

Will D. Campbell, Liberty - Writer

Hodding Carter, II, Greenville - Writer

Elliott Chaze, Hattiesburg - Writer

Mark Childress, Clinton - Writer

Kate Freeman Clark, Holly Springs - Artist

Jefferson "Jeff" Davis - Writer/Producer/Director

Borden Deal, Pontotoc - Writer

Louisa Dixon, Jackson - Writer

G. Ruger Donoho, Church Hill - Artist

Ellen Douglas, (Josephine Haxson), Natchez - Writer

William Dunlap, Tupelo - Artist

John Faulkner, Ripley - Writer (William Faulkner's brother)

William Clark Falkner, Ripley - Writer (William Faulkner's great-grandfather)

William Faulkner, New Albany/Oxford - Prize-winning Novelist

Shelby Foote, Greenville - Novelist, Historian

Richard Ford, Jackson - Writer

Ellen Gilchrist, Vicksburg - Novelist

John Grisham, Oxford - Best-selling Author (A Time To Kill, The Summons)

Theora Hamblett, Oxford - Primitive Painter

Barry Hannah, Clinton - Writer

Phill Hardwick, Jackson - Writer

Thomas Harris, Rich - Writer (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon)

Beth Henley, Jackson - Playwright

Greg Iles, Natchez - Best-selling Author

Willie Morris, Yazoo City - Journalist/Writer/Editor

Walker Percy, Greenville - Author

William Raspberry, Okolona - Columnist

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Holly Springs - Writer

Eudora Welty, Jackson - Prize-winning Author

Tennessee Williams, Columbus - Prize-winning Author/Playwright

Richard Wright, Natchez - Novelist/Poet

James Street, Lumberton - Novelist

Zig Zigler, Yazoo City - Motivational Speaker/Writer