Alabama Writers Hall of Fame

The Alabama Writers Hall of Fame is a recognition for writers with significant ties to the state of Alabama. The program, which was created in 2014 with a new class inducted every two years, is administered by the Alabama Center for the Book and the Alabama Writer's Forum.

Inductees

• 2015: Helen Norris Bell, Rick Bragg, Andrew Glaze, Johnson Jones Hooper, Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Keller, Harper Lee, William March, Albert Murray, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sonia Sanchez, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
• 2016: Edward O. Wilson, Fannie Flagg, Rodney Jones, Rebecca Gilman, Truman Capote, T. S. Stribling, Margaret Walker, Mary Ward Brown, Sequoyah
• 2018: Joseph Glover Baldwin, James Haskins, Charles Gaines, Shirley Ann Grau, Wayne Greenhaw, Winston Groom, William Bradford Huie, Gay Talese
• 2020: Mark Childress, Faye Gibbons, Carolyn Haines, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Michael Knight, Ralph Ellison, Zelda Fitzgerald
• 2023: Tom Franklin, Trudier Harris, Angela Johnson, Howell Raines, Michelle Richmond, Daniel Wallace, Eugene Walter, Kathryn Tucker Windham

References

• Smith, Jamon (September 19, 2016) "Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2016." University of Alabama News Center
• Cobb, Mark Hughes (May 24, 2018) "Diverse class enters state writers’ hall of fame." The Tuscaloosa News
• Smith, Jamon (October 21, 2019) "Alabama Writers Hall of Fame to Induct 7 in 2020." University of Alabama News Center

External links

• Alabama Writers Hall of Fame website