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This is a List of authors who were born, raised, or worked in the Birmingham area:
Novelists
- Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio
- James Saxon Childers, Laurel and Straw, Hilltop in the Rain, From Siam to Suez
- Mark Childress, Crazy in Alabama
- Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, Standing in the Rainbow, A Redbird Christmas
- Charles Gaines, Stay Hungry
- Ethel Gorman, Red Acres
- John Temple Graves, The Fighting South, Tonight in the South, The Shaft in the Sky
- Frances Nimmo Green, The Right of the Strongest, Into the Night, One Clear Call
- Keith Harrelson
- Mary Johnston, To Have and to Hold, Prisoner of Hope
- Caitlin Kiernan
- Jim Lawrence
- Hugh Martin, Best Foot Forward
- Robert McCammon
- Mittie Owen McDavid, Princess Pocahontas, Children of the Meadow
- Walker Percy (1916-1990), The Moviegoer (1961)
- Rebecca Rogers
- Margaret D. Sizemore, The Amazing Marriage of Marie Eustis and Josef Hoffman
- Edgar Valentine Smith, Elijah
- Emma Gelders Sterne, Calico Ball, No Surrender, Some Plant Olive Trees
- Tobias Wolff
- Erna Oleson Xan, Wisconsin, My Home, Home For Good
Children's authors
Historians
- Hul-Cee M. Acton, Chalk, Termites and God's Country, Pierian Club of Birmingham
- Ethel Armes, Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama
- Mary Powell Crane, History of Alabama and Birmingham
- George M. Cruikshank, Birmingham and Environs (2 vols.)
- Hill Ferguson, Personalities of Birmingham Men and Women
- John Henley, Jr, This is Birmingham
- Tim Hollis, Birmingham's Theater and Retail District, Birmingham Broadcasting
- J. R. Hornady, Book of Birmingham
- Thomas Huey, Sr, Story of Ruhama
- Lou Emma Matthews
- Florence Wood Moss, Building of Birmingham and Jefferson County
- Marlene Hunt Rikard
- James F. Sulzby, Jr, Birmingham Sketches from 1872 through 1921, Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts.
- Elberta Taylor, Birmingham, My Home
- Marjorie Longenecker White, Downtown Birmingham, The Birmingham District
- Marvin Yeomans Whiting, '"Fairfield: Past, Present, Future", One Great City, Vestavia Hills, Alabama: A Place Apart
Other
- Fanna K. Bee
- Clint Bonner, Alabama Oddities
- Octavus Roy Cohen, short stories about African-American life on 18th Street
- Howard Cruse
- Angela Davis
- Paul Finebaum
- Vonetta Flowers
- Sally Hill, Progressive Farmer, cookbook
- Kate Speake Penny
- Dottie Smith, Cake Expressions
- David Vest
- Heather Whitestone
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