Literature of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia Literature of Georgia (U.S. state) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is part of a series on the Culture of the United States of America Society History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion Arts and literature Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater Other Cuisine Festivals Folklore Media Newspapers Radio Cinema TV Internet Pornography Mythology Sport Symbols Flag Great Seal Monuments Motto Anthem Bird World Heritage Sites United States portal v t e 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] Contents 1 History 2 Organizations 3 See also 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External links History[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by 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] Organizations[edit] The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994. See also[edit] Literature portal Georgia (U.S. state) portal Category:Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction Category:Libraries in Georgia (U.S. state) Southern United States literature American literary regionalism References[edit] ^ Moore 2001. ^ Hugh Ruppersburg, "Literature: Overview", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council, retrieved March 13, 2017 ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext) ^ 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. ^ Flanders 1944. ^ 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. ^ Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8. Bibliography[edit] Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Georgia". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 186+. hdl:2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust. Elsie Dershem (1921). "Georgia". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive. Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Literature", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, American Guide Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 117–125, ISBN 9781603540100 – via Google Books Bertram Holland Flanders (2010) [1944]. Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3536-0. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Georgia literature) Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992). Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Nonfiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994). Michael E. Price, Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000). Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Poetry (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000). Rayburn S. Moore (2001). "Literature of Georgia". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 294–302. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9. Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003). External links[edit] United for Libraries. "Literary Landmarks by State: Georgia". Chicago: American Library Association. "Georgia Historic Books" – via Digital Library of Georgia. Books related to Georgia's history and culture (Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.) Scott Thompson (ed.). "Georgia Authors". Gecko's Georgia. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. "Topics: Media: Magazines and Journals", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council "Georgia: Arts and Entertainment: Literature". DMOZ. AOL. 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