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]

History

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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]

Organizations

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The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Moore 2001.
  2. ^ Hugh Ruppersburg, "Literature: Overview", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council, retrieved March 13, 2017
  3. ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
  4. ^ Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via Documenting the American South.
  5. ^ Flanders 1944, p. [page needed].
  6. ^ R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. (2006). "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings". In Tom Quirk; Gary Scharnhorst (eds.). American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684314938.
  7. ^ Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.[page needed]

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