Southern Authors on January 17, 2016 Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps A post dedicated to Southern authors... Captain John Smith William Byrd II Hugh Swinton Legare Paul Hamilton Hayne Henry Timrod William Gilmore Simms Sir Walter Scott James Fenimore Cooper John Pendleton Kennedy Nathaniel Beverley Tucker Frederick Douglass Harriet Jacobs William Wells Brown Abram Joseph Ryan Thomas Nelson Page Mark Twain Thomas Dixon, Jr. William Faulkner Katherine Anne Porter Caroline Gordon Allen Tate Robert Penn Warren Tennessee Williams Margaret Mitchell Flannery O'Connor Harper Lee Truman Capote John Kennedy Toole John Berendt John Grisham Anne Rice And many, many more. For more Southern info. visit Documenting the American South.