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This is a List of authors who were born, raised, or worked in the Birmingham area:

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
Gail Godwin (born 1937), The Odd Woman (1974), Violet Clay (1978), A Mother and Two Daughters (1982)
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
Han Nolan (born 1956), Send Me Down a Miracle (1996), Dancing on the Edge (1997)
Richard North Patterson (born 1947)
Walker Percy (1916-1990), The Moviegoer (1961)
Rebecca Rogers
Steven Rudd, Midnight Red
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

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

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 * [[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]]''
+* [[Gail Godwin]] (born 1937), ''The Odd Woman'' (1974), ''Violet Clay'' (1978), ''A Mother and Two Daughters'' (1982)
 * [[Ethel Gorman]], ''Red Acres''
 * [[John Temple Graves]], ''The Fighting South'', ''Tonight in the South'', ''The Shaft in the Sky''