Literary Map of Virginia

By the Virginia Association of Teachers of English

Author List

Author	Area of Virginia
Adams, Alice	Northwestern
Andrews, V.C.	Eastern
Alexander, Kwame	Northern
Anderson, Sherwood	Southwestern
Armstrong, William	West Central
Ayyildiz, Judy	Southwestern
Baker, Russell	Northern
Baldacci, David	Central
Bartoletti, Susan	Southwestern
Bausch, Richard	Northern
Beasley, Nancy Branch	Central
Beattie, Ann	Northern
Bickerstaff, Patsy Anne	Central
Bond, Nelson	Southwestern
Bowman, Tom	Northern
Beverley, William	Central
Bradshaw, Gillian	Northern
Branch, Muriel Miller	Central
Brooks, Geraldine	Northern
Browder, Laura	Central
Brown, Alexander	West Central
Brown, Rita Mae	West Central
Bruce, William	Central
Bruno, K. K.	Eastern
Byrd, William	Central
Cabell, James Branch	Central
Carlson, Natalie Savage	Northwestern
Casey, John	West Central
Carpenter, Mary Chapin	Northern
Cather, Willa	Northwestern
Cayce, Edgar	Eastern
Challender, Craig	Central
Chrisman, Arthur	Northwestern
Christenbury, Leila	Central
Clement, Maud	Southwestern
Cooke, John	Northwestern
Cornwell, Patricia	Central
Couric, Katie	Northern
Crosby, Ellen	Northern
Curran, Colleen	Central
Dabney, Virginius	West Central
Davidson, Diane Mott	West Central
De Haven, Tom	Central
Dillard Annie	Southwestern
Dos Passos, John	Central
Dotson, Rand	Southwestern
Dove, Rita	West Central
Emerson, Claudia	Northwestern
Epps, Garrett	Central
Erskine, Kathryn	West Central
Falco, Edward	Southwestern
Fleischer, Paul	Central
Freeman, Douglas	Central
Gander, Forrest	Southwestern
Garrett, George	West Central
Gibson, Margaret	Central
Giovanni, Nikki	Southwestern
Glasgow, Ellen	Central
Gore Tipper	Northern
Grisham, John	West Central
Hamner, Earl	West Central
Hankla, Cathryn	Southwestern
Henry, Marguerite	Eastern
Hickam, Homer	Southwestern
Hicok, Bob	Southwestern
Holton, Woody	Central
Hornsby, Bruce	Eastern
Houston, Drusilla	Northwestern
Huddle, David	Southwestern
Jefferson, Thomas	West Central
Jennings, Gary	West Central
Johnston, Mary	West Central
Kajder, Sara	Southwestern
Kilpatrick, James	Central
King, Dean	Central
King, Florence	Northwestern
Kingsolver, Barbara	Southwestern
Kreiter-Foronda, Carolyn	Eastern
Kukla, Jon	Central
Larrick, Nancy	Northwestern
Lebsock, Suzanne	West Central
Lyle, Katie Letcher	Northwestern
Lyons, Mary E.	West Central
MacLaine, Shirley	Central
Madgett, Naomi Long	Eastern
Malone, Dumas	West Central
Marshall, Paule	Central
Massie, Elizabeth	West Central
Matthews, Dave	West Central
McCaig, Donald	West Central
McCrumb, Sharyn	Southwestern
Morgan, Elizabeth Seydel	Southwestern
Mudd, Roger	Central
Neuharth, Jan	Northern
Nystrom, Debra	West Central
Owens, Vivian	West Central
Page, Thomas	Central
Pausch, Randy	Eastern
Pearson, T. R.	Southwestern
Poe, Edgar Allan	Central
Ransom, Candice	Northwestern
Robbins, Tom	Central
Rockliff, Mara	Southwestern
Rouse, Parke	Eastern
Rubin, Louis	Southwestern
Sanders, Scott	Southwestern
Schroeder, Joan Vannorsdall	Southwestern
Settle, Mary Lee	West Central
Smith, John	Eastern
Smith, Lee	Southwestern
Spencer, Anne Bethel	Southwestern
Stone, Ruth	Southwestern
Styron, William	Eastern
Taylor, Henry S.	Northern
Taylor, Peter Hillsman	Southwestern
Trethewey, Natasha	Southwestern
Trigiani, Adriana	Southwestern
Tyler-McGraw, Marie	Northern
Washington, Booker T.	Southwestern
Webb, Jim	Northern
Wilson, Woodrow	Northwestern
Wolfe, Tom	Central
Wright, Charles	West Central

Total researched as of September 2008: 123

List of Virginia Authors