Literature
Robert Penn Warren
Poet, critic, novelist, and US Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren is best known for his novel "All The King's Men", inspired by the life and death of Louisiana governor Huey Long.
Literature
Literature Index
Literature
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Ruth McEnery Stuart was one of the most prominent Louisiana writers of short stories and poetry in the late nineteenth century.
Literature
Sarah Morgan Dawson
Sarah Morgan Dawson kept a dairy of her experiences during the Civil War in Louisiana.
Literature
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson first arrived in New Orleans in 1922 and quickly became the charismatic center of the arts scene now known as the French Quarter Renaissance.
Literature
Shirley Ann Grau
New Orleans born writer Shirley Ann Grau is noted for her depictions of southern landscapes and Louisiana folkways in her fiction.
Literature
Sidonie de la Houssaye
Sidonie de la Houssaye wrote about nineteenth-century Creole society.
History
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup, a free Black New Yorker, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, spending twelve years enslaved on Louisiana plantations before regaining his freedom.
Literature
Southwestern Humor
Southwestern humor is a literary genre that flourished in the southeastern United States between 1830 and 1865.
Literature
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias, a 1987 play by Robert Harling, centers on the bond among six southern women in the 1980s in the fictional setting of Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana and how they cope with the untimely death of a young mother within their tightly knit circle.
Literature
Swamps in Literature, Film, and Folklore
Swamps have a unique place in the literature, film and folklore of Louisiana.
Literature
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century.
Literature
The Awakening
This entry provides an overview and analysis of Kate Chopin's short novel "The Awakening."
