Georgia literature

The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker.

[3] Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847).

[4] In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.

[5] Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales.