| 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
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Peter Taylor was born in Thornton, Tennessee raised in Nashville, St. Louis and Memphis. He studied writing at Rhodes College and Vanderbilt under the guidance of John Crowe Ransom.
[read our bio of Taylor] | Featured Book
Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple shares a story of African American family traditions passed down from generation to generation.[visit our bookstore]
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Linda Bloodworth Thomason,
author of
Liberating Paris and creator/writer of Designing Women and Evening Shade talks with SLR Congratulations to Lorie Watkins Fulton. She won a copy of Cynthia Shearer's Celestial Jukebox! Coming Soon! SLR Talks with novelist
Cynthia Shearer
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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 |
