Literature of Georgia (U.S. state)
# Literature of Georgia (U.S. state)

The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker.

## History

A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762.

Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales."

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta."

## Organizations

The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.

