The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker.
History
A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762. (Fulltext)
Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales."
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta."
Organizations The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.
See also
:Category:Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state) :Category:Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction :Category:Libraries in Georgia (U.S. state) Southern United States literature American literary regionalism
References
Bibliography
(Includes information about Georgia literature) 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).
Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
External links
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