Zora! Festival Coming Up
Each January, Zora Neale Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, Florida, remembers its native writer at the Zora! Festival. It's an appropriate time, as Hurston's birthday is January 7, and she died on...
View ArticleErnest Gaines Turns 80
On January 18, Louisiana author of "A Lesson Before Dying" Ernest Gaines will have a literary award handed out in his name at Baton Rouge's Manship Theatre, while trumpeter Irvin Mayfield performs an...
View ArticleToasting Poe on His Birthday
You might think Edgar Allan Poe's birthday would be in October, but it's not. The master of macabre was born smack dab in the middle of winter on January 19.
View ArticleSearching for Womanhood
Southern writers Kate Chopin and Rebecca Wells share much more than just a birth date. by Dr. Mary Ann Wilson
View ArticleAlice Walker Through the Years
A decade-dent birthday tribute to an American author, poet and activist.
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Carson McCullers!
Sometimes overlooked and not as well known as Flannery O'Connor or Eudora Welty, Georgia author Carson McCullers deserves a day of recognition.
View ArticleJoshilyn Jackson Was Born Today
Many of our birthday tributes here are to authors who have passed away, but today's is for a very much living (and still writing, we hope) Georgia author.
View ArticleVisiting Flannery O’Connor on her Birthday
Flannery O'Connor's birthday today marks the beginning of spring and the perfect time to visit the landmarks of her life in Georgia.
View ArticleTracking Tennessee
On the heels of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival falls the great Southern playwright's birthday today.
View ArticleHave You Heard of Barry Hannah?
A birthday tribute to the late Mississippi author by Kayla Smith.
View ArticleCelebrating Zelda Fitzgerald’s Birthday
Happy Birthday to the most spectacular belle Montgomery, Alabama, would ever know.
View ArticleInside Tennessee Williams’ Key West Birthday Party
The Florida town where the playwright was known simply as "Tom" celebrates his birthday publicly for the first time.
View ArticleKey West Celebrates Tennessee Williams
Birthday events honoring the playwright are scheduled through March in the town he called the most fantastic place in America.
View ArticleLife With Eudora Welty
Actress Brenda Currin talks about her life as a Welty lover and adapter in celebration of the author's birthday and start of the inaugural Welty Biennial in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Alice Walker Through the Years
A decade-dent birthday tribute to an American author, poet and activist. By Rebecca Lynn Aulph In Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944, two sharecroppers living under the laws of the Jim Crow South...
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Happy Birthday to Carson McCullers!
Sometimes overlooked and not as well known as Flannery O’Connor or Eudora Welty, Georgia author Carson McCullers deserves a day of recognition. Born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus on February 19, 1917,...
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Joshilyn Jackson Was Born Today
Many of our birthday tributes here are to authors who have passed away, but today’s is for a very much living (and still writing, we hope) Georgia author. In books like “Gods in Alabama” and “The Girl...
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Visiting Flannery O'Connor on her Birthday
Flannery O’Connor’s birthday today marks the beginning of spring and the perfect time to visit the landmarks of her life in Georgia. Lafayette Square in Savannah is the site of O’Connor’s Childhood...
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Tracking Tennessee
On the heels of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival falls the great Southern playwright’s birthday today. We spent the weekend celebrating and toasting Tennessee all over New Orleans...
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Have You Heard of Barry Hannah?
A birthday tribute to the late Mississippi author by Kayla Smith. “Ask people about him, and either they’ll say they’ve never heard the name (despite his nominations for both the National Book Award...
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