Alabama:
Ace Atkins
Rick Bragg
Libba Bray
Ralph Compton
Zelda Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Anne George
Gail Godwin
Linda Howard
Zora Neale Hurston
Helen Keller
Harper Lee
Sena Jeter Naslund
Walker Percy
Gin Phillips
Tobias Wolff
Alaska:
Lucia Berlin
Stan Jones
Dana Stabenow
Arizona:
Nancy Farmer
Diana Gabaldon
Steven Gould
Bentley Little
Jeanette Walls
Arkansas:
John Grisham
Laurell K. Hamilton
Mercer Meyer
Charles Portis
California:
Stephen J. Cannell
Raymond Chandler
Andre Dubus III
Gretel Ehrlich
Bret Easton Ellis
James Ellroy
John Fante
Janet Fitch
Dian Fossey
Don Freeman
Robert Frost
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Daniel Handler
Shirley Jackson
Maxine Hong Kingston
Suzy Kline
Anne Lamott
Arnold Lobel
Jack London
Steve Martini
Walter Mosley
Joan Lowery Nixon
Frank Norris
Scott O'Dell
Julie Otsuka
Ann Patchett
Richard North Patterson
William Saroyan
John Saul
Jane Smiley
John Steinbeck
Irving Stone
Amy Tan
Gail Tsukiyama
Harry Turtledove
Colorado:
Eleanor Estes
Kent Haruf
Ken Kesey
Gladys Taber
Dalton Trumbo
Connecticut:
Candace Bushnell
Suzanne Collins
Caroline B. Cooney
Tomie de Paola
Dominick Dunne
Elizabeth Gilbert
Steven Kellogg
Dave King
Elizabeth Kostova
Wally Lamb
Jay McInerney
Stephenie Meyer
Emily Cheney Neville
E. Annie Proulx
George Selden
Louise Shaffer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Delaware:
Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose
Lisa Ann Sandell
Florida:
Patricia Cornwell
J.T. Ellison
Patricia Gaffney
Heather Graham
Robert Hicks
Carl Hiaasen
Brenda Jackson
Karen Russell
Georgia:
Olive Ann Burns
Jimmy Carter
Pat Conroy
James Dickey
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sue Monk Kidd
Martin Luther King Jr.
Laura Lippman
Frances Mayes
Carson McCullers
Margaret Mitchell
Flannery O'Connor
Diana Palmer
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Anne River Siddons
Alice Walker
Stuart Woods
Hawaii:
Lois Lowry
Ian MacMillian
Barack Obama
Idaho:
Carol Ryrie Brink
Chandler Brossard
Ezra Pound
Marilynne Robinson
Beatrice Sparks
Illinois:
Stephen Ambrose
Jean Auel
Richard Bach
Ray Bradbury
Terry Brooks
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sandra Cisneros
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
Jeffrey Deaver
Sarah Dessen
Jennifer Egan
Jim Fergus
Jonathan Franzen
Betty Friedan
Kinky Friedman
William Goldman
Johnny Gruelle
John Gunther
John Jakes
Lorraine Hansberry
Ernest Hemingway
Irene Hunt
Mercedes Lackey
Sue Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Z.Z. Packer
Richard Peck
Richard Powers
Sidney Sheldon
Shel Silverstein
Brad Thor
Scott Turow
Indiana:
Norman Bridwell
Meg Cabot
Kate Collins
Theodore Dreiser
Karen Joy Fowler
John Green
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Ward Just
Haven Kimmel
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Booth Tarkington
Maurice Thompson
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jessamyn West
Iowa:
Bill Bryson
Eugene Burdick
David Drake
Tami Hoag
Norman Maclean
Vicki Myron
Sara Paretsky
John Sandford
Wallace Stegner
Robert James Waller
Kansas:
Jill Churchill
Kenneth S. Davis
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Jim Lehrer
Bill Martin Jr.
Scott Phillips
Kentucky:
Jude Deveraux
Michael Dorris
Sue Grafton
Suzan-Lori Parks
Hunter S. Thompson
Robert Penn Warren
Louisiana:
Dee Brown
Truman Capote
Robert Crais
Andre Dubus
Ernest J. Gaines
Elmore Leonard
Patricia Maxwell
Anne Rice
John Kennedy Toole
Jennifer Weiner
Rebecca Wells
Maine:
Joe Hill
Stephen King
Tabitha King
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elizabeth Strout
Maryland:
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Tom Clancy
Emily Giffin
Dashiell Hammett
Karen Hesse
Barbara Kingsolver
Robin Koontz
Munro Leaf
Sharon Lee
Frank Miller
Emily Post
Nora Roberts
Upton Sinclair
Neal Stephenson
Leon Uris
Robert Ward
Massachusetts:
Russell Banks
John Bartlett
Virginia Lee Burton
John Cheever
Pearl Cleage
Robert Cormier
E.E. Cummings
Barbara Delinsky
Jared Diamond
Emily Dickinson
W.E.B. DuBois
Dave Eggers
Esther Forbes
Benjamin Franklin
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Julia Glass
Noah Gordon
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sebastian Junger
Jack Kerouac
Jon Krakauer
Dennis Lehane
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eugene O'Neil
Michael Palmer
Robert B. Parker
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
R.A. Salvatore
Richard Scarry
Anne Sexton
Beverly Swerling
Henry David Thoreau
Cynthia Voigt
Michigan:
A. Manette Ansay
K.A. Applegate
Marguerite de Angeli
Pete Dexter
Jeffrey Eugenides
Donald Goines
John Grogan
Judith Guest
E. Lynn Harris
Jim Harrison
Tim LaHaye
Terry McMillian
Audrey Niffenegger
Marisha Pessl
Patricia Polacco
Ann Rule
Jon Scieszka
Chris Van Allsburg
Minnesota:
Charles Baxter
Elizabeth Berg
Leif Enger
Louise Erdrich
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Joanne Fluke
Thomas L. Friedman
Wanda Gag
Garrison Keillor
Chuck Klosterman
Sinclair Lewis
Tim O'Brien
Gary Paulsen
Robert Pirsig
Peggy Rathmann
Anne Tyler
Mississippi
Jimmy Buffet
William Faulker
Shelby Foote
Richard Ford
Ellen Gilchrist
Charlaine Harris
Melinda Haynes
Kathryn Stockett
Donna Tartt
Mildred Taylor
Eudora Welty
Tennesee Williams
Richard Wright
Missouri:
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Browne
William S. Burroughs
Jim Butcher
Dale Carnegie
Kate Chopin
T.S. Eliot
Gillian Flynn
Julie Garwood
Robert Heinlein
Langston Hughes
Stephen Hunter
Paulette Jiles
Faye Kellerman
John Lutz
Katherine Neville
Kay Thompson
Calvin Trillin
Margaret Truman
Lisa Tucker
Mark Twain
Margaret Weis
Montana:
Ivan Doig
Barbara Ehrenreich
Torey Hayden
Thomas Savage
Nebraska:
Harold Thayer Davis
Kenneth C. Flint
Ron Hansen
L. Ron Hubbard
Alex Kava
Daniel Quinn
Nicholas Sparks
Jack Todd
Nevada:
Leigh Bale
Nevada Barr
Deborah Coonts
Jennifer Lauck
Willy Vlautin
New Hampshire:
Dan Brown
John Irving
Carolyn Parkhurst
Eleanor H. Porter
Armstrong Sperry
New Jersey:
Mitch Albom
Frank Asch
Paul Auster
James Baldwin
Judy Blume
Sandra Boynton
Alan Brennert
Iris Chang
Andrew Clements
Harlan Coben
Joanna Cole
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Paula Danziger
Anita Diamant
Janet Evanovich
Allen Ginsberg
Donna Leon
Norman Mailer
Megan McCafferty
Barbara Park
Dorothy Parker
Philip Roth
Michael Shaara
Martha Stewart
Judith Viorst
New Mexico:
Rudolfo Anaya
Louis Bayard
Alisa Valdes
New York:
David A. Adler
Julia Alvarez
Laurie Halse Anderson
Avi
L. Frank Baum
Peter Benchley
John Berendt
William Peter Blatty
Chris Bohjalian
T.C. Boyle
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Margaret Wise Brown
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Eric Carle
Caleb Carr
Francis Pharcellus Church
Mary Higgins Clark
Billy Collins
Bruce Coville
Mark Z. Danielewski
Don Delillo
Nelson Demille
Alan Dershowitz
E.L. Doctorow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve Ensler
Nora Ephron
Linda Fairstein
Walter Farley
Paula Fox
Alan Furst
Patricia Reilly Giff
Phoebe Gilman
Alex Haley
Pete Hamill
Joseph Heller
Mark Helprin
Syd Hoff
Alice Hoffman
Washington Irving
Susan Isaacs
Rona Jaffe
Henry James
Erica Jong
Ezra Jack Keats
Jonathan Kellerman
Daniel Keyes
E.L. Konigsburg
Madeleine L'Engle
Erik Larson
Jonathan Lethem
Elizabeth Levy
Robert Lipsyte
Robert Ludlum
Gregory Maguire
Bernard Malamud
Ed McBain
Herman Melville
Daniel Mendelsohn
Arthur Miller
Henry Miller
J.R. Moehringer
Walter Dean Myers
Joyce Carol Oates
Cynthia Ozick
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Jodi Picoult
Belva Plain
Chaim Potok
Jack Prelutsky
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Ruth Reichl
Ann Rinaldi
Harold Robbins
Richard Russo
Louis Sachar
J.D. Salinger
Lawrence Sanders
Alvin Schwartz
David Sedaris
Hubert Selby Jr.
Maurice Sendak
Dani Shapiro
Neil Simon
Betty Smith
Robert Kimmel Smith
Susan Sontag
Mickey Spillane
Todd Strasser
Gore Vidal
Ned Vizzini
Rosemary Wells
E.B. White
Walt Whitman
Eloise Wilkin
Meg Wolitzer
Jane Yolen
Paul Zindel
North Carolina:
Michael Blake
Betsy Byars
Amanda Davis
Bessie Delany
Charles Frazier
Allan Gurganus
Kaye Gibbons
O. Henry
Tom Robbins
Lionel Shriver
Theodore Taylor
Thomas Wolfe
North Dakota:
Louis L'Amour
Larry Watson
Ohio:
Sherwood Anderson
Robert Atkins
Katherine Ayres
Natalie Babbitt
Ambrose Bierce
Erma Bombeck
Louis Bromfield
Sharon Creech
Jennifer Cruise
Michael Cunningham
Anthony Doerr
Elizabeth George
Zane Grey
Cathy Guisewite
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Robert McCloskey
Martha Moody
Christopher Moore
Toni Morrison
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Dav Pilkey
James Purdy
Barbara Robinson
Terry Ryan
Gloria Steinem
R.L. Stine
William Strunk Jr.
James Thurber
Oklahoma:
William Bernhardt
John Berryman
Ralph Ellison
Carolyn Hart
Tony Hillerman
S.E. Hinton
Billie Letts
Mary Pope Osborne
Wilson Rawls
Lane Smith
Sarah Vowell
Karen White
Oregon:
Beverly Cleary
Lisa Gardner
Graham Salisbury
John Varley
Pennsylvania:
Louisa May Alcott
Lloyd Alexander
Melissa Bank
Jan Berenstain
Marc Brown
Augusten Burroughs
Bebe Moore Campbell
Stephen Chbosky
Matt Christopher
Michael Connelly
Kate DiCamillo
Annie Dillard
Lois Duncan
Jack Gantos
Martha Grimes
Jennifer Haigh
Russell Hoban
Dean Koontz
Ann M. Martin
David McCullough
Fern Michaels
James Michener
Robert Munsch
Stewart O'Nan
Anna Quindlen
Conrad Richter
Lisa Scottoline
Martin Cruz Smith
Jerry Spinelli
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
Jacqueline Susann
John Updike
Lauren Weisberger
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Marianne Wiggins
Rhode Island:
Spalding Gray
John Hawkes
David Kessler
H.P. Lovecraft
Cormac McCarthy
Ron McLarty
South Carolina:
Dorothy Allison
Alice Childress
William Gibson
Robert Jordan
Peggy Parish
Barbara Parker
South Dakota:
J.A. Jance
Spencer Johnson
Watson Parker
Tennessee:
James Agee
Eric Jerome Dickey
Louise Fitzhugh
Arthur Golden
Thomas Harris
Texas:
Sandra Brown
James Lee Burke
Catherine Coulter
Allen Drury
Tony Earley
Kim Edwards
Robert Fulghum
Dorothy Garlock
Fred Gipson
John Howard Griffin
Mary Karr
John Lescroart
Max Lucado
James Marshall
Larry McMurty
Oliver North
Katherine Anne Porter
Utah:
Stephen Covey
Richard Paul Evans
Shannon Hale
Brenda Novak
Vermont:
Jeanne Betancourt
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Virginia:
Edward Albee
V.C. Andrews
William H. Armstrong
David Baldacci
Russell Baker
Ann Brashares
Liz Carlyle
Willa Cather
Millie Criswell
Sadie Delany
Claudia Emerson
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Napoleon Hill
Barbara Holland
Sheri Holman
Thomas Jefferson
Gary Jennings
Lee Smith
Rene Steinke
William Styron
Adriana Trigiani
Booker T. Washington
David Wisniewski
Tom Wolfe
Washington:
Sherman Alexie
Richard Brautigan
Orson Scott Card
William Dietrich
David Eddings
Timothy Egan
David Guterson
Frank Herbert
Gary Larson
Debbie Macomber
Chuck Palahniuk
Washington, D.C.
Anne Applebaum
Ann Beattie
Suzanne Berne
Michael Chabon
Tracy Chevalier
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jean Craighead George
Andrew Sean Greer
A.M. Homes
Edward P. Jones
Caroline Kennedy
Armistead Maupin
George Pelecanos
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Porter Shreve
Scott Spencer
Zane
West Virginia:
Pearl S. Buck
Stephen Coonts
Homer Hickman
Jeanne Hines
John Knowles
Walter Dean Myers
Eugenia Price
Cynthia Rylant
Wisconsin:
Lynda Barry
Lan Samantha Chang
Kevin Henkes
Marguerite Henry
Peg Kehret
Ron Kovic
Kris Radish
Alice Sebold
Peter Straub
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
David Wroblewski
Wyoming:
Craig Johnson
Patricia MacLachlan
Kyle Mills
Todd Parr
