New Orleans and Louisiana Authors, Literature, and Book Stores

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Andrei Codrescu - New Orleans - this Louisiana author is a Romanian transplant who has made a reputation as a poet in prose. Reviews, publications, upcoming appearances, selected readings, author's commentary, and more.

Anne Rice - New Orleans - one of the most read authors in America today. Her stories are a rich blending of the visible and perpetual worlds and are deeply etched with tapestries of history, philosophy, religion, belief, and supernatural forces, bringing us into the lives of characters that push our physical world beyond that which we perceive.

Arthur Hardy - New Orleans - Arthur Hardy's Mardi Gras Guide contains 128 colorful pages of facts, photos, features, and fun, including more than 50 individual parade profiles and maps. The award-winning magazine includes a history of the event; answers to the 25 most frequently asked questions; an illustrated glossary of Mardi Gras terms; and articles on New Orleans personalities, traditions and happenings. For more than three decades, the city's top writers and photographers have worked together to create a publication that has achieved genuine collectible status. With more than two million copies sold, Arthur Hardy's Mardi Gras Guide is recognized as the program to the event.

Barnes and Noble Booksellers - Metairie - includes listing of bestsellers. Features college textbooks, music, software, and online courses.

Borders Book Store - Metairie - online retail site for music, video, and books including computer and children's books.

Cajun Woman Enterprises - Lockport - For real Cajun stories by a real Cajun! Order online today! Visa, Mastercard, American Express accepted. Professional page layout for self-publishers (books), magazines, and newsletters. Janet Foret Lococo, is a full-blooded Cajun, born, reared and still residing on the banks of Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish. Lafourche Parish is located in the lower most area of southern Louisiana and is commonly called "Bayou Country." Always a good storyteller, she has succeeded in humorously describing her life and her experiences as a Cajun that began in the 1930s in her first book "CAJUN WOMAN: Pure & Simple."

Catharine Cole's Louisiana - New Orleans - Catharine Cole, a Picayune writer, visited and wrote about all of Louisiana's parishes in the 1890s. This site has many of her articles. She was the 1st full-time woman staff writer on the newspaper and wrote a column, "Catharine Cole's Correspondence," each Sunday featuring women's topics, philosophic observations, fiction, and, most notably, her travels around the state. Over a period of years she visited and wrote about most of the parishes in Louisiana.

Denise M. Snellgrove Wilkinson - Pearlington, Ms. - New local gulf Coast author introduces her newly published book, Isabella St. Clair: Vamp of New Orleans, the Vieux Carre. Denise was born in New Orleans, has lived all over southern Louisiana and now resides in Mississippi. She's a true 'Southern Story Teller'.

Faulkner House Books - New Orleans - Established eleven years ago on William Faulkner's birthday, September 25, 1990, Faulkner House Books has been a full-service new and used book store serving the New Orleans, Louisiana, area and customers around the world.

Gravier House Press - New Orleans - Author Steve Herman publishes this Website/Blog addressing Politics and the Law, Literature, and Pop Culture; with information about his books, America and the Law, The Gordian Knot, The Sign of Four, and Timothy Stone.

Helen Prejean, Sister - New Orleans - writer and social activist and the subject of the film "Dead Man Walking" was born on April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her efforts as an anti-death penalty activist are admired by many who are working to nominate her for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Humberto Fontova - Covington - Louisiana sportswriter, author of "Hell Divers Rodeo", "The Hellpig Hunt", "Fidel: Hollywoods Favorite Tyrant" and "Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots who Idolize Him". Political pundit on shows from Bill Maher's 'Politically Correct' to Bill O'Reily's 'The Factor'. His books are available on Amazon. Site links to his article's archives. Articles include: Jesse Jackson's Excellent New Orleans Adventure; Cajuns, Hunting, Hemingway and Pinkos; Catch, Fillet and Release; More Louisiana Blood Lust; and Rich Americans With Guns.

John Biguenet - New Orleans - John Biguenet's fiction has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Granta, Playboy, Story, and Zoetrope. The winner of an 0. Henry Award for short fiction, he lives in New Orleans.

John Kennedy Toole - (1937 - 1969) - Wrote "A Confederacy of Dunces". Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. You will find his Papers online at Tulane University. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today there are over 1.5 million copies in print worldwide in eighteen different languages.

Lillian Hellman - (June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984) Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1905, Hellman saw her young life populated by eccentric and avaricious relatives, who later appeared only thinly disguised in her plays.

Louisiana Book Festival - The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana and the Louisiana Library Foundation are delighted to announce their Annual Louisiana Book Festival. Louisiana's FREE, world-class literary celebration offers children and adult booklovers unique opportunities to interact with over 100 exceptional poets, writers and storytellers and to enjoy an inspiring variety of book-related activities, exhibitions and demonstrations. Food & Music, too!

Louisiana Books by Nola Mae Ross - Nola Mae Ross is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Her books tell the true stories and happenings of this state.

Louisiana Center for the Book - was established in the State Library of Louisiana in 1994 for the purpose of stimulating public interest in reading, books and libraries. It is affiliated with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and works to accomplish its mission in three ways: by developing, sponsoring and coordinating statewide reading and writing enrichment programs for children; by identifying and nurturing the objectives of Louisiana's writers, publishers, and others involved in the creation and promotion of books; and by encouraging Louisianians to read by presenting or sponsoring public presentations by accomplished authors, thus enabling the public to interact with living authors.

Louisiana Library Connection Database - using your library card number or your own password, you can use this link to access the libraries' databases as you do on the computers in the library; use your computer at home to browse your libraries databases at your convenience.

Louisiana's French Writers-Lecture by Jan Boney - Too French to be American, too American to be French: The family home of 19th-century Louisiana Writer Désirée Martin. Locating Louisiana Writers 1706-1867.

Louisiana Library Directory - This State Library of Louisiana allows you to browse your Parish library systems online from anywhere.

Louisiana Outdoor Writers Association - a non-profit organization comprised of outdoor communicators including newspaper and magazine writers, columnists, editors, photographers, cartoonists, radio and television broadcast journalists, book authors, lecturers and public relations specialists.

Louisiana Writers Directory - an ongoing project of the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana. It is available as an on-line, searchable database containing bibliographical and biographical information on over 300 living Louisiana writers. It may be searched by a variety of fields and by keyword(s).

Loyola University New Orleans Bookstore - New Orleans - On-line Text Adoptions. On-line Text Ordering. Loyola University New Orleans Authors and General Reading. Featured Products. Monthly Sales Promotions.

Maple Street Book Shop - New Orleans - A New Orleans bookstore for New Orleans authors & visiting booklovers. Also offers a kid's book store next door.

New Orleans Bookfair - A free, open the public bookfair on the last weekend of October, streetcars, booze, food, music, authors, poets, publishers, art book makers, zinesters, booksellers, activists and culture jammers are coming together for a weekend celebration in the heart of old New Orleans.

Octavia Books - New Orleans - independent bookstore features book signings and other literary events, recommended books, local interest, and book news, as well as online browsing and ordering.

Online NewsHour: Fifty Years of "Desire" - offers transcripts of a background report and interview by Elizabeth Farnsworth with a theater director and Tennessee Williams biographer about the enduring nature of the play and the playwright.

Pauline Books and Media - Metairie - mission is to communicate the Gospel message, responding to the hopes and needs of all people with the Word of God.

Robert Keys - (a.k.a. O. J. Key ~ 1921-2004) Louisiana author of book on aging and health, "Secrets of Dying Young at a Very Old Age." Robert Keys, born in New Orleans, was a star athelete as a member of the Jesuit High School football team and later pursued an acting career in Hollywood having appeared in over 150 movies in the 1950's and 60's.

Southern Louisiana Chapter of the Romance Writers of America - is to promote excellence in romantic fiction, help writers become published and establish careers in their writing.

Stephen Ambrose - (January 10, 1936 - October 13, 2002) - born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Stephen Ambrose is the father of the D-Day Museum in New Orleans and was a professor of history at the University of New Orleans for over 20 years. He was considered the foremost historian on 20th century America but wrote about other periods in American history as well. His books covered topics such as World War Two, the Lewis and Clark Expedition of the Louisiana Purchase and the Vietnam War as well as presidential biographies. He was President Clinton's historical consultant in preparation for the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994 and advised Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks during the making of the epic World War Two film, 'Saving Private Ryan'.

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival - New Orleans - offers information on Tennessee Williams, links, contests, past and present festivals and more.

Tennessee Williams - (1911-1983) More biographical information of the beloved playwright and author.

Tennessee Williams - an essay by Jens Bjorneboe reflecting on the late plays of Tennessee Williams.

Todd-Michael St. Pierre - Louisiana Arthor - His new book is "Makin' Groceries: A New Orleans Tribute" (a picture book that celebrates New Orleans) with a percent of the proceeds going to benefit The New Orleans Public Library Rebuilding Project! He writes children's books and Cajun & Creole Cookbooks.

Truman Capote - (Sept. 30, 1924 - Aug. 25, 1984) Born in New Orleans , Truman Capote was a Southern Gothic novelist, journalist, and celebrated man-about-town. He was widely hailed as a stylist after publication of his earliest writings.

University Press of the South - New Orleans - publishing company specializing in academic publications.