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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
- Caroline Ballin, Search for Freedom (1966)
- James Saxon Childers, Laurel and Straw, Hilltop in the Rain, From Siam to Suez
- Mark Childress, Crazy in Alabama
- Todd Dills, Sons of the Rapture (2006)
- Susannah Felts, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record (2008)
- Margaret Fenton, Little Lamb Lost (2009)
- 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 (1972)
- 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
- William Bradford Huie (1910–1986), The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1951), The Klansman (1967)
- Mary Johnston, To Have and to Hold, Prisoner of Hope
- Caitlín R. Kiernan (born 1964), Silk (1998), Low Red Moon (2003)
- Jim Lawrence
- Hugh Martin, Best Foot Forward
- Robert R. McCammon (born 1952), Baal (1978), Speaks the Nightbird (2002)
- Mittie Owen McDavid, Princess Pocahontas, Children of the Meadow
- Kevin McGowin (1970-2005) The Benny Poda Years (2001)
- 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)
- Gin Phillips, The Well and the Mine (2008)
- 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
- Howell Vines (1899-1981), This Green Thicket World (1934)
- Daniel Wallace (born 1959), Big Fish (1998)
- Tobias Wolff
- Erna Oleson Xan, Wisconsin, My Home, Home For Good
Children's authors
- Charles Ghigna
- Carroll Karch
- Sheror Caton Moore, Treasures in an Alabama Attic
- C. L. Threatt
Historians
- Hul-Cee M. Acton: Chalk, Termites and God's Country, Pierian Club of Birmingham
- Ethel Armes: Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama
- James R. Bennett: Tannehill and the Growth of the Alabama Iron Industry, Historic Birmingham and Jefferson County
- Mary Powell Crane: History of Alabama and Birmingham
- George Cruikshank: Birmingham and Environs (2 vols.)
- Colin Davis: Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace Since 1945
- John Witherspoon DuBose: Jefferson County and Birmingham, Ala.: Historical and Biographical
- Carl Elliott: Annals of Northwest Alabama (5 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
- Jere King, Jr (1910-1999): Generals and Politicians: Conflict between France’s High Command, Parliament, and Government, 1914-18
- Andrew Manis: A Fire You Can't Put Out
- Lou Emma Matthews
- Diane McWhorter: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
- 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
- Cecil Whitmire: The Alabama Theatre: Showplace of the South
Other
- Andy Andrews, motivational books
- Sloan Bashinsky, Jr, real estate and legal advice
- Fanna K. Bee
- Clint Bonner, Alabama Oddities
- John Claypool, theology
- Octavus Roy Cohen, short stories about African-American life on 18th Street
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman, short stories, often in the horror genre
- Howard Cruse, comics and graphic novels
- Angela Davis
- Blanche Dean, nature guides
- Paul Finebaum
- Vonetta Flowers
- Roland Frye, Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts, Is God a Creationist?
- Sally Hill, Progressive Farmer, cookbook
- Irene Latham, poet
- Kate Speake Penny
- Jack Sacco, Where the Birds Never Sing
- Dottie Smith, Cake Expressions
- Gay Talese, essayist, memoirist
- David Vest
- Heather Whitestone
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References
- This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape. Alabama Center for the Book and Auburn University.