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The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker. [1] [2]
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A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762. [3]
Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). [4] In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror. [5]
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales." [6]
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta." [7]
The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.
Books related to Georgia's history and culture(Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.)
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The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker. [1] [2]
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adding to it. (March 2017) |
A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762. [3]
Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). [4] In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror. [5]
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales." [6]
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta." [7]
The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.
Books related to Georgia's history and culture(Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.)