Southern writers are at a bit of an advantage in that we have a powerful sense of place, but mostly we know characters. We ARE characters. We come from families, neighborhoods, churches, and kinfolk that are the stuff you think is made up, but only slightly. We love an embellished story. We are storytellers. To be southern is to be a good storyteller. Join us at the table as we discuss male southern authors.

We already did an episode on female southern authors. You can listen to that here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steel-magnolias-podcast/id1442852139?i=1000554084762

Mentioned in this episode: 

• William Faulkner - https://rowanoak.com/
• Mark Twain 
• William Percy
• Walker Percy
• Shelby Foote
• Tennessee Williams
• Richard Wright
• Pat Conroy
• Thomas Wolfe
• Peter Taylor 
• Robert Penn Warren 
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Wendell Berry 
• James Agee
• Lewis Grizzard
• Sean Dietrich - subscribe to daily column - https://seandietrich.com/
• O. Henry
• Rick Bragg
• Roy Blount Jr.
• Nicholas Sparks
• John Grisham - we did an entire episode on him: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steel-magnolias-podcast/id1442852139?i=1000645984372
• Ernest Hemingway
• Charles Portis
• Charles Frasier
• Alfred Uhry 
• Winston Groom
• Cormac McCarthy
• John Kennedy Toole

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