With thirty-five novels, two Edgar Awards, and one of the most enduring characters in crime fiction, James Lee Burke is a titan among mystery writers. But maybe we should just call him a writer

How a Memphis novelist’s history of the Civil War made history itself

Carl Hiaasen has spent a lifetime railing against corrupt politicians and the wanton destruction of Florida’s natural riches. Along the way he’s become one of the country’s most successful novelists, not to mention one hell of a fly fisherman

The biggest name in Southern lit didn’t spend his whole life in Mississippi

Gut-busting laughs. Heartache. The North Carolina shore. David Sedaris weaves them all into a new memoir

Counting songbirds and talking about the land with the legendary conservationist, farmer, and writer

As a student, author Wiley Cash discovered the work of the incomparable Louisiana writer Ernest J. Gaines. It was the start of a literary bond that has lasted two decades—and an education in the power of the place you call home

Two Seckatary Hawkins books that guided Harper Lee toward her seminal work

A look over the fence at the reclusive Harper Lee