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best author in your state's history?
« on: October 07, 2009, 07:09:11 AM »
I'm wondering who members here think is the best author, the best writer, ever, to come out of their respective native states.

In my own case, Nebraska, it has to be Mari Sandoz, hands down.

In Mississippi, it has to be Eudora Welty.

In Colorado, it has to be Eugene Fowler.

In New York, it has to be Ludwig Bemelmans.

But it's all a matter of taste, one supposes.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 07:20:16 AM »
Three that were born in Illinois: Hemingway,  Carl Sandburg and Ray Bradbury.  Of those, I've read far more by Bradbury.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 07:39:30 AM »
 Samuel Clemens........
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2009, 07:42:53 AM »
Quote from: Wayne on October 07, 2009, 07:39:30 AM
Samuel Clemens........

Man, absolutely no argument there.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2009, 07:50:06 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 07, 2009, 07:09:11 AM
I'm wondering who members here think is the best author, the best writer, ever, to come out of their respective native states.


In Mississippi, it has to be Eudora Welty.

William Faulkner, born and died in MS, won the Nobel in literature.

Also notables include:

Tennessee Williams, Shelby Foote, and John Grisham (came to Mississippi when he was a kid).
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2009, 09:41:01 AM »
Will Rogers and N. Scott Momaday.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2009, 09:42:32 AM »
John Steinbeck is definitely up there. 
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2009, 10:01:39 AM »
PA has had some good ones.

John Updike.

Louisa May Alcott

James Michener


My favorite? John D. MacDonald. He wrote the "Fletch" books, and he most famously wrote the amazing Travis McGee series of novels.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2009, 10:12:49 AM »
Quote from: Rebel on October 07, 2009, 07:50:06 AM
William Faulkner, born and died in MS, won the Nobel in literature.

Also notables include:

Tennessee Williams, Shelby Foote, and John Grisham (came to Mississippi when he was a kid).


Well, seeing as I was raised in MS, I immediately thought of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner. 

But, if we are discussing the state I live in now, it would have to be Larry McMurtry.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2009, 10:52:08 AM »
Can I nominate the Dem party who authored a bill to increase our state income tax to 12% and kill our mortgage deduction for anyone making over 75K/year in the name of fairness?

It was good humor. And  :censored: the bill passed, but was fortunately Veto'd.  Now, the author of the bill is running for Gov. under the statement that she's the only one capable of fixing the budget struggles. 

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2009, 08:28:38 PM »
Quote from: Splashdown on October 07, 2009, 10:01:39 AM
PA has had some good ones.

John Updike.

Louisa May Alcott

James Michener


My favorite? John D. MacDonald. He wrote the "Fletch" books, and he most famously wrote the amazing Travis McGee series of novels.

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2009, 09:19:34 PM »
TN authors....

Alex Haley
Cormac McCarthy
James Agee
Robert Penn Warren
TS Stribling.


We have more famous musicians/singer/songwriters and athletes than authors....
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2009, 02:18:04 PM »
Jack London, Robert Frost.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2009, 06:03:36 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 07, 2009, 07:09:11 AM
I'm wondering who members here think is the best author, the best writer, ever, to come out of their respective native states.

In my own case, Nebraska, it has to be Mari Sandoz, hands down.

In Mississippi, it has to be Eudora Welty.

In Colorado, it has to be Eugene Fowler.

In New York, it has to be Ludwig Bemelmans.

But it's all a matter of taste, one supposes.

Best author or best selling author.   Then Maine , Steven King

New Hampshire,  Dan Brown.

I was going to say Thomas Paine but on doing a quick check found him to be totally different from what I was taught in school.

How about the the Yankee Almanac's that has been around for a hundred years or more. when to sow and how to dig fence posts by the moon fazes.

We have quite a few authors up here that made it big in the 1800 times, few read them today they just remain part of our heritage.


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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2009, 08:17:25 AM »
I have to say that MS has given the world some very fine authors. No disrespect to any other states since there are plenty of great authors to go around.

Foote
Faulker
Grisham
Welty
(all already mentioned)

I would also add:

Nevada Barr
Tennesse Williams (oops - someone added him above)
Thomas Harris (Red Dragon - of Hannibal Lector fame)
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2009, 10:38:07 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on October 07, 2009, 10:01:39 AM
PA has had some good ones.

John Updike.

Louisa May Alcott

James Michener


My favorite? John D. MacDonald. He wrote the "Fletch" books, and he most famously wrote the amazing Travis McGee series of novels.

Absolutely. I'm currently re-reading the entire McGee series. MacDonald died in 1986, which was a cryin' shame. Nobody, in my opinion, writes about the human condition quite like he did. He was largely known as a "paperback" or dime-store novel writer, but I always thought he was far, far better than that.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2009, 02:18:31 PM »

Tom Clancy-novelist.

H.L. Mencken- writer/journalist.

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2010, 05:46:40 PM »
Zane Grey-Arizona.

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2010, 05:58:32 PM »
Quote from: Aaron Burr on January 03, 2010, 05:46:40 PM
Zane Grey-Arizona.

I read a Zane Grey book not too long ago, The Lost Wagon Train or some such. The writing was actually pretty modern-seeming. Very readable.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2010, 12:06:45 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 07, 2009, 07:09:11 AM
I'm wondering who members here think is the best author, the best writer, ever, to come out of their respective native states.

In my own case, Nebraska, it has to be Mari Sandoz, hands down.

I dunno Frank... I just got finished reading about Willa Cather, I believe it said from Nebraska, she sounds awesome.

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2010, 03:59:32 PM »
Quote from: FGL on January 16, 2010, 12:06:45 AM
I dunno Frank... I just got finished reading about Willa Cather, I believe it said from Nebraska, she sounds awesome.

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It's a matter of taste.

Most rate Willa Cather as the greatest writer from Nebraska, but not all.

Readers who like fantasy like Willa Cather; readers who like facts like Mari Sandoz.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2010, 04:05:50 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on January 16, 2010, 03:59:32 PM
Readers who like fantasy like Willa Cather; readers who like facts like Mari Sandoz.

But her fantasy was a tool to teach true economics to the ignorant masses. heh.

I'll take your word on this.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2010, 04:42:50 PM »
Quote from: FGL on January 16, 2010, 04:05:50 PM
But her fantasy was a tool to teach true economics to the ignorant masses. heh.

I'll take your word on this.

My philosophy about fiction versus non-fiction goes back to John Hershey's Hiroshima, a fictional tale that apparently evoked powerful emotions in readers.

Hiroshima did nothing for me, because I already knew the people described therein were made-up people, with made-up sufferings.

On the other hand, Day One by Peter Wyden, also about Hiroshima, had an enormous effect on me, because he was describing real people with real sufferings.

And thus my opinion of the Willa Cather-Mari Sandoz thing.

The world is jampacked full of facts, and life is to short to waste on made-up stories.

I realize, of course, I am stating a decidedly minority opinion, but it's mine.
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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2010, 05:45:44 PM »
That is a personally reasonable viewpoint Frank.

Mine is, life stinks, I wanna go back to bed and dream some more.

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Re: best author in your state's history?
« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2010, 05:48:52 PM »
Texas boasts not only Larry McMurtry but Joe galloway as well.
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