Only dead authors are included in this list. The most recently deceased authors appear first.

• Ellen Douglas (1921-2012)
• William Raspberry (1935-2012)
• Lewis Nordan (1939-2012)
• Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
• Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
• Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (1935-2005)
• Larry Brown (1951-2004)
• Joan Williams (1928-2004)
• James Whitehead (1936-2003)
• Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)
• Berry Morgan (1919-2002)
• Jimmy Faulkner (1923-2001)
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• Neil McGaughey (1951-1999)
• Willie Morris (1934-1999)
• Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998)
• Jerry Clower (1926-1998)
• Frank Trippett (1926-1998)
• Evans Harrington (1925-1997)
• Otis Williams (1939-1997)
• Nash K. Burger (1908-1996)
• Charlotte Capers (1913-1996)
• Red Barber (1908-1992)
• Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
• Walker Percy (1916-1990)
• Jim Henson (1936-1990)
• Dumas Malone (1892-1986)
• William Attaway (1911-1986)
• Wirt Alfred Williams (1921-1986)
• Borden Deal (1922-1985)
• [William] Turner Catledge (1901-1983)
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
• Benjamin Franklin Wasson (1899-1982)
• Lehman Engel (1910-1982)
• Rosewell Graves Lowrey (1895-1979)
• Charlemae Rollins (1897-1979)
• Velma Sanders (1912-1979)
• J. Edgar Simmons (1921-1979)
• Wyatt Cooper (1927-1978)
• Frank Stanford (1949-1978)
• Malcolm Franklin (1923-1977)
• Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
• Murry C. Falkner (1899-1975)
• Laurence C. Jones (1882-1975)
• William Hodding Carter, II (1907-1972)
• Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890-1970)
• Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966)
• Reuben G. Davis (1889-1966)
• Muna Lee (1895-1965)
• David Edgar Guyton (1880-1964)
• Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
• John Faulkner (1901-1963)
• Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963)
• Stark Young (1881-1963)
• William Faulkner (1897-1962)
• David Lewis Cohn (1897-1960)
• Richard Wright (1908-1960)
• Katherine Bellamann (1877-1956)
• Frances Gaither (1889-1955)
• Howard Washington Odum (1884-1954)
• Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954)
• James Howell Street (1903-1954)
• Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953)
• Harris Dickson (1868-1946)
• Jonathan Henderson Brooks (1905-1945)
• William Alexander Percy (1885-1942)
• Belle Kearney (1863-1939)
• John Roy Lynch (1847-1939)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
• Larry Semon (1889-1928)
• Walter Malone (1866-1915)
• Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904)
• Pearl Rivers (1849-1896)
• L.Q.C. Lamar (1825-1893)
• Reuben Davis (1813-1890)
• William Clark Falkner (1826-1889)
• J.F.H. Claiborne (1807-1884)
• Sherwood Bonner (1849-1883)
• Irwin Russell (1853-1879)
• Samuel Newton Berryhill (1832-1877)
• Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877)
• Catherine Ann Warfield (1816-1877)
• Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)
• William C. Hall (1819-1865)
• Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864)
• Joseph Beckham Cobb (1819-1858)
• Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
• Alexander G. McNutt (1802?-1848)