A Sampling of
Contemporary Louisiana Authors
This list is by no means exhaustive. It includes primarily current
authors who live in, or write
about, Louisiana. I have not included well-known Louisiana writers of
the past such as Grace
King, Walker Percy, Kate Chopin, or John Kennedy Toole. I have also
excluded poetry and
nonfiction titles. Only one title is listed for each author, though
most have written more than
one book. Award-winning books are shown in boldface type.
LSU Libraries has a much more extensive list of Louisiana Authors at:
www.lib.lsu.edu/la/la.html.
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- Thomas Adcock - Thrown-Away Child
(mystery)
- Susan Wittig Albert - Thyme of Death (mystery)
- Kevin Allman - Tight Shot (mystery)
- John Ames - The Death Crystal (horror, western)
- Fredrick Barton - The El Cholo Feeling
Passes (fiction)
- Lois Battle - Storyville (fiction)
- Rexanne Becnel - Maiden Bride (romance)
- James Gordon Bennett - The Moon Stops Here (fiction)
- Barbara Bernard - Burning Roses (romance)
- Sheila Bosworth - Almost Innocent (fiction)
- John Ed Bradley - Smoke (fiction)
- Poppy S. Brite - Exquisite Corpse (horror)
- John Gregory Brown - Decorations in a Ruined Cemetary
(fiction)
- Carrie Brown - Rose's Garden (fiction)
- James Lee Burke - Black Cherry Blues (mystery,
fiction) (Edgar Award)
- Robert Olen Butler - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
(fiction)
(Pulitzer, Pen/Faulkner Award)
- Andre Codrescu - The Blood Countess
(horror)
- James Colbert - Skinny Man (mystery)
- Robert Crais - Indigo Slam (mystery)
- Moira Crone - Dream State (fiction)
- Jacqueline D'Acre - Between Extremities
(fiction)
- Franklin Daugherty - Isle of Joy (fiction)
- O'Neal De Noux - Crescent City Kills (mystery)
- Elizabeth Dewberry (Vaughn) - Many Things Have Happened Since He
Died
(fiction)
- D. J. Donaldson - Blood on the Bayou (mystery)
- John Dufresne - Louisiana Power and Light (fiction)
- Tony Dunbar - City of Beads (mystery)
- Sophie Dunbar - A Bad Hair Day (mystery)
- Louis Edwards - Ten Seconds (fiction)
- George Alec Effinger - When Gravity Fails (science
fiction)
- Tony Fennelly - 1-900-DEAD (mystery)
- Richard Ford - Independence Day (fiction) (Pulitzer,
National Book
Critics Circle Award)
- Ernest Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying
(fiction) (National Book Critics
Circle Award)
- Tim Gautreaux - Same Place, Same Things (fiction)
- Barry Gifford - Wild at Heart (fiction)
- Ellen Gilchrist - Victory Over Japan (fiction)
(American Book Award)
- Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers of the House (fiction)
(Pulitzer)
- Lee Meitzen Grue - Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud (fiction)
- Barbara Hambly - A Free Man of Color
(fiction, mystery, science fiction)
- Ernest Hill - Satisfied with Nothin' (fiction)
- Metsy Hingle - Lovechild (romance)
- Nikki Holiday - Heaven Comes Home (romance)
- Rhodesia Jackson - Pecan Candy and
Huck-a-Bucks (fiction)
- Nancy Lemann - Sportsman's Paradise
(fiction)
- Dick Lochte - The Neon Smile (mystery)
- Anne Logan - That Old Devil Moon (romance)
- Deborah Martin - Windswept (romance)
- Valerie Martin - The Great Divorce (fiction)
- Meagan McKinney - Gentle from the Night (romance)
- Skye Kathleen Moody - Blue Poppy (mystery)
- Deborah Nicholas - Silent Sonata
(romance)
- Karen Palmer - All Saints (fiction)
- Tom Piazza - Blues and Trouble (fiction)
- Belva Plain - Crescent City (fiction)
- Francine Prose - Marie Laveau (fiction)
- Jean Redmann - The Intersection of Law
and Desire (mystery) (Lambda
Award)
- Jewell Parker Rhodes - Voodoo Dreams (fiction)
- Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat (horror)
- Alexandra Ripley - New Orleans Legacy (fiction)
- Laura Joh Rowland - Shinju (mystery)
- James Sallis - Long-Legged Fly (mystery,
fiction, science fiction)
- Fatima Shaik - The Mayor of New Orleans: Just Talking Jazz
(fiction)
- Sarah Shankman - I Still Miss My Man But My Aim is Getting
Better (mystery)
- M. K. Shuman - The Last Man to Die (mystery)
- Robert E. Skinner - Skin Deep, Blood Red (mystery)
- Julie Smith - New Orleans Mourning (mystery) (Edgar
Award)
- Erica Spindler - Heaven Sent (romance)
- Robert Stone - A Hall of Mirrors (fiction)
- Emily Toth - Daughters of New Orleans
(romance)
- Lucian Truscott IV - Dress Gray (fiction)
- Patricia Vaughn - Shadows on the Bayou
(romance)
- Nancy Wagner - Two Sisters (fiction)
- Margaret Walker - Jubilee (fiction)
- Joanna Wayne - Extreme Heat (romance)
- Rebecca Wells - Little Altars Everywhere (fiction)
- Mary Lou Widmer - Lace Curtain (romance)
- James Wilcox - Modern Baptists (fiction)
- Bess Willingham - Vigilante Viscount (romance)
- Jean Wilson - Sweet Dreams (romance)
- Christine Wiltz - The Glass House (fiction, mystery)
- Steven Womack - The Software Bomb (mystery)
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Updated 3/14/98--vln