| The Southern Literary Review celebrates authors of the South and their contributions to American literature. We feature classic southern authors like Kate Chopin and William Faulkner. SLR also features profiles and interviews with modern greats such as Tom Wolfe and Wendell Berry and emerging writers such as Steve Sherrill and Sue Monk Kidd. We are dedicated to offering quality information about America’s southern writers, and their works. Peruse our excellent book reviews on new southern novels as well as the classics of southern literature. In addition, we invite you to browse our comprehensive bookstore linked to Amazon.com, including critical essays and biographies of southern authors, as well as a collection of southern travel, southern culture, architecture, photography, history and of course southern cooking! What Makes Southern Literature Southern? Geographically, the South can reach as far west as Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas, and as far North as Kentucky, and Virginia, and southern culture can reach beyond. ... [read more] Featured Author
 Walker Percy was born in Greenville, Mississippi, raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He studied chemistry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and then medical school at Columbia, but his passion for writing would eventually dominate his life.
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A Portrait of
Southern Writers
Acclaimed photographer Curt Richter presents a moment of reflection in the face of the pressure of and struggles with creativity. Includes detachable postcards of southern writers such as Walker Percy, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and Bailey White.
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Interview
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Steve Sherrill
and Mary Robertson, southern antiques expert
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~ “I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within." -Eudora Welty |
