Literature
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke is the author of detective fiction set in Louisiana.
James Lee Burke is the author of detective fiction set in Louisiana.
A radical civil rights advocate during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Jean Baptiste Roudanez helped found two historic Black newspapers.
New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole is known for his posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
Boston-born Julie Kane was appointed the 2011-2013 Louisiana Poet Laureate.
Kate Chopin, one of Louisiana's best known authors, wrote fiction about late nineteenth-century Cajun life.
The South’s first Black newspaper, L’Union was an abolitionist journal that promoted full citizenship rights for men of African descent.
Author and journalist Lafcadio Hearn spent a number of years in New Orleans writing about Creole culture.
Les Cenelles is a groundbreaking collection of original French poems published by a group of free men of color in nineteenth-century Louisiana.
New Orleans native Lillian Hellman was the author of several successful plays, as well as her popular memoirs.
Local color fiction was a literature genre popular with American readers between 1870 and 1900.
Founder of L’Union, the South’s first Black-owned newspaper, as well as the New Orleans Tribune, America’s first Black daily, Louis Charles Roudanez was a staunch abolitionist and advocate for the liberation of all Black people.
Louisiana’s folktales have been influenced by Indigenous peoples and the many cultural and ethnic groups that have immigrated to the state.
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