(Greenville) Craig Claiborne (1920–2000), food writer (Sunflower) Carl Corley (1919–2016), author (Florence) Hubert Creekmore (1907–1966), poet, author (Water Valley) Mart Crowley (1935–2020), playwright (Vicksburg) Borden Deal (1922–1985), novelist and short story writer (Pontotoc) Ben Domenech (born 1981), conservative writer and blogger (Jackson) David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), historian (Goodman) Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton) (1921–2012), novelist (Greenville) Eliza Ann Dupuy (c. 1814 – 1880), first woman of Mississippi to earn her living as a writer John T. Edge (born 1962), food writer (Oxford) W. Ralph Eubanks (born 1957), author, journalist (Mount Olive) Woody Evans (born 1971?), technology journalist and short story writer (Hattiesburg) John Faulkner (1901–1963), plain-style writer (Ripley) William Faulkner (1897–1962), Nobel laureate (New Albany) William Clark Falkner (1825–1889), businessman, author (Ripley) Vic Fleming (born 1951), puzzle writer (Jackson) Shelby Foote (1916–2005), historian and novelist (Greenville) Charles Henri Ford (1913–2002), poet, novelist, editor (Brookhaven) Richard Ford (born 1944), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer (Jackson) Lynn Franklin (1922–2005), author, police detective Tom Franklin (born 1963), author (Oxford) Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935), novelist, poet, short story writer (Vicksburg) John Grisham (born 1955), legal thrillers novelist (Southaven) Barry Hannah (1942–2010), novelist and short story writer (Clinton) Charlaine Harris (born 1951), mystery author (Tunica) Thomas Harris (born 1940), author, screenwriter (Rich) Beth Henley (born 1952), playwright and screenwriter (Jackson) M. Carl Holman (1919–1988), author, poet, playwright (Minter City) Alan Huffman, author, journalist (Bolton) Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1830–1907), author, suffragist (Warren County) Greg Iles (born 1960), novelist (Natchez) Germany Kent (born 1975), author, journalist (Greenville) Greg Keyes (born 1963), science fiction and fantasy writer (Meridian) Kiese Laymon (born 1974), novelist, memoirist (Jackson) Muna Lee (1895–1965), author and poet (Raymond) Clinton LeSueur (born 1969), journalist, congressional candidate (Holly Springs) Sam Chu Lin (1939–2006), journalist (Greenville) Della Campbell MacLeod (ca. 1884 – ?), author, journalist (Greenwood) Anne Moody (1940–2015), author, activist (Centreville) Willie Morris (1934–1999), author, editor (Jackson) Jess Mowry (born 1960), writer of books and stories for children and young adults (Starkville) Thomas Naylor (1936–2012), author and economist (Jackson) Lewis Nordan (1939–2012), fiction author (Itta Bena) Steven Ozment (1939–2019), historian (McComb) Walker Percy (1916–1990), author (Greenville) William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), author (Greenville) Thomas Hal Phillips (1922–2007), author, film actor (Corinth) Robert M. Price (born 1954), theologian, writer (Jackson) William Raspberry (1935–2012), public affairs columnist (Okolona) Kevin Sessums (born 1956), magazine editor (Forest) Donald C. Simmons Jr. (born 1963), author and filmmaker (Eupora) Roscoe Simmons (1881–1951),