Francis Parkinson Keyes first visited New Orleans during Mardi Gras in 1940 when she was 55 years old. Enthralled with the city, Keyes rented a grand home in the French Quarter and set many novels there, including "Dinner at Antoine's," published in 1948. Keyes died in her home in New Orleans on July 3, 1970.
Henry Clay Lewis trained as a doctor in Louisiana and also contributed to the nineteenth-century literary genre of southwestern humor.
James Lee Burke is the author of detective fiction set in Louisiana.
New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole is known for his posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
Author and journalist Lafcadio Hearn spent a number of years in New Orleans writing about Creole culture.
New Orleans native Lillian Hellman was the author of several successful plays, as well as her popular memoirs.
Lyle Saxon published articles, short stories, books of creative nonfiction, and one novel; he also directed the Louisiana branch of the Federal Writers Project.
Louisiana poetry ranges from early francophone works to contemporary compositions.
A pioneer planter in what is now West Feliciana Parish, Rachel O'Connor wrote more than one hundred letters describing antebellum plantation life in southern Louisiana.
Rebecca Wells is a novelist, actress, and playwright from central Louisiana.
New Orleans born writer Shirley Ann Grau is noted for her depictions of southern landscapes and Louisiana folkways in her fiction.
Sidonie de la Houssaye wrote about nineteenth-century Creole society.
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