This list is by no means exhaustive. It includes primarily current authors who live in, or write about, Louisiana. I have not included well-known Louisiana writers of the past such as Grace King, Walker Percy, Kate Chopin, or John Kennedy Toole. I have also excluded poetry and nonfiction titles. Only one title is listed for each author, though most have written more than one book. Award-winning books are shown in boldface type.
LSU Libraries has a much more extensive list of Louisiana Authors at: www.lib.lsu.edu/la/la.html.
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Thomas Adcock - Thrown-Away Child (mystery)
Susan Wittig Albert - Thyme of Death (mystery)
Kevin Allman - Tight Shot (mystery)
John Ames - The Death Crystal (horror, western)
Fredrick Barton - The El Cholo Feeling Passes (fiction)
Lois Battle - Storyville (fiction)
Rexanne Becnel - Maiden Bride (romance)
James Gordon Bennett - The Moon Stops Here (fiction)
Barbara Bernard - Burning Roses (romance)
Sheila Bosworth - Almost Innocent (fiction)
John Ed Bradley - Smoke (fiction)
Poppy S. Brite - Exquisite Corpse (horror)
John Gregory Brown - Decorations in a Ruined Cemetary (fiction)
Carrie Brown - Rose's Garden (fiction)
James Lee Burke - Black Cherry Blues, Cimarron Rose (mystery, fiction) (Edgar Awards)
Robert Olen Butler - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (fiction)
(Pulitzer, Pen/Faulkner Award)
Andre Codrescu - The Blood Countess (horror)
James Colbert - Skinny Man (mystery)
Robert Crais - Indigo Slam (mystery)
Moira Crone - Dream State (fiction)
Jacqueline D'Acre - Between Extremities (fiction)
Franklin Daugherty - Isle of Joy (fiction)
O'Neal De Noux - Crescent City Kills (mystery)
Elizabeth Dewberry (Vaughn) - Many Things Have Happened Since He Died
(fiction)
D. J. Donaldson - Blood on the Bayou (mystery)
John Dufresne - Louisiana Power and Light (fiction)
Tony Dunbar - City of Beads (mystery)
Sophie Dunbar - A Bad Hair Day (mystery)
Louis Edwards - Ten Seconds (fiction)
George Alec Effinger - When Gravity Fails (science fiction)
Tony Fennelly - 1-900-DEAD (mystery)
Richard Ford - Independence Day (fiction) (Pulitzer, National Book
Critics Circle Award)
Ernest Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying (fiction) (National Book Critics
Circle Award)
Tim Gautreaux - Same Place, Same Things (fiction)
Barry Gifford - Wild at Heart (fiction)
Ellen Gilchrist - Victory Over Japan (fiction) (American Book Award)
Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers of the House (fiction) (Pulitzer)
Lee Meitzen Grue - Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud (fiction)
Barbara Hambly - A Free Man of Color (fiction, mystery, science fiction)
Ernest Hill - Satisfied with Nothin' (fiction)
Metsy Hingle - Lovechild (romance)
Nikki Holiday - Heaven Comes Home (romance)
Rhodesia Jackson - Pecan Candy and Huck-a-Bucks (fiction)
Nancy Lemann - Sportsman's Paradise (fiction)
Dick Lochte - The Neon Smile (mystery)
Anne Logan - That Old Devil Moon (romance)
Deborah Martin - Windswept (romance)
Valerie Martin - The Great Divorce (fiction)
Meagan McKinney - Gentle from the Night (romance)
Skye Kathleen Moody - Blue Poppy (mystery)
Deborah Nicholas - Silent Sonata (romance)
Karen Palmer - All Saints (fiction)
Tom Piazza - Blues and Trouble (fiction)
Belva Plain - Crescent City (fiction)
Francine Prose - Marie Laveau (fiction)
Jean Redmann - The Intersection of Law and Desire (mystery) (Lambda
Award)
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Voodoo Dreams (fiction)
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat (horror)
Alexandra Ripley - New Orleans Legacy (fiction)
Laura Joh Rowland - Shinju (mystery)
James Sallis - Long-Legged Fly (mystery, fiction, science fiction)
Fatima Shaik - The Mayor of New Orleans: Just Talking Jazz (fiction)
Sarah Shankman - I Still Miss My Man But My Aim is Getting Better (mystery)
M. K. Shuman - The Last Man to Die (mystery)
Robert E. Skinner - Skin Deep, Blood Red (mystery)
Julie Smith - New Orleans Mourning (mystery) (Edgar Award)
Erica Spindler - Heaven Sent (romance)
Robert Stone - A Hall of Mirrors (fiction)
Emily Toth - Daughters of New Orleans (romance)
Lucian Truscott IV - Dress Gray (fiction)
Patricia Vaughn - Shadows on the Bayou (romance)
Nancy Wagner - Two Sisters (fiction)
Margaret Walker - Jubilee (fiction)
Joanna Wayne - Extreme Heat (romance)
Rebecca Wells - Little Altars Everywhere (fiction)
Mary Lou Widmer - Lace Curtain (romance)
James Wilcox - Modern Baptists (fiction)
Bess Willingham - Vigilante Viscount (romance)
Jean Wilson - Sweet Dreams (romance)
Christine Wiltz - The Glass House (fiction, mystery)
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