Southern writers

Idlefellow · Subject: Southern writers Mon May 04, 2009 6:18 am

I'm on a new kick; reading Faulkner's short stories got me started, I guess. Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Conner, Breece D'J Pancake (yeah, I know; I thought it was a joke too at first). Any other "southern" favorites or suggestions?

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the macdonald · Number of posts: 257 Age: 34 Registration date: 2008-08-31

Robert Penn Warren! All the King's Men was way more of book than I was ready for when I picked it up. I nievly expected a straight ahead political thriller and got "real literature." He has written alot more but up hear in New England only All the King's Men is carried in the stores.

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paddy-boy · Subject: Re: Southern writers Mon May 04, 2009 10:01 am

Walker Percy: The Moviegoer, Love in Ruins, Lancelot.. Hell anything by Percy is good.
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
And of course Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird