Americans of Veeky Forums, who's your favorite writer from your state?

our only other option

me

Edgar Allan Poe

I used to like Mencken a lot, but I guess I've grown out of him. Still like his prose, though.

Orson Card

POE SPENT ALL OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND YOUNG ADULT LIFE IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

HE WENT TO UVA

HE IS A SOUTHERN, VIRGINIAN WRITER WHO HAPPENED TO DIE IN BALTIMORE

HE IS NOT "FROM" MARYLAND OR BALTIMORE

HE HAS NO SINCERE RELATION TO THAT GODFORSAKEN SPRAWL OF CONCRETE AND TERRIBLE DRIVERS

STOP SPREADING THIS LIE

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wallace Stevens desu

Being from Maine I have to go with Stephen King.

Ginsberg and Williams don't count?

I'd go with Williams?

William Burroughs! I wish I was old enough to have encountered him hanging around the 39th street diner and his other usual haunts.

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>Maine
Mein negro

also:
>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

same fuck fitzgerald

ginsberg definitely counts, but I thought we were considering good writers only. I may be embarrassing myself here but which Williams are you referring to?

O. Henry

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William Carlos

Eyyyy

>fuck fitzgerald
nigga you crazy as hell

who the fuck is from north carolina

Oh duh, true.

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Breece J'D Pancake

Tennessee here. If I can claim McCarthy then him, but if not I have no clue.

I suppose I could be a Rhodesian and be like this guy But you know what? Nah

Hannibal, Missouri? I passed through there about 10 years ago and it was a dump. Good luck.

Angels' camp?

Normally I would put Bukowski, but I'll put Chandler since he died in San Diego County. Not many authors lived or died here.

hitler hat nichts falsch gemacht Ich liebe Hahn

John Grisham is from my city

Bradbury, with Hemingway being a very close -near tie for first- second.

But really, fuck my state. Those two and Lincoln are the only good to come of it.

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I know what I meant pseud. RI inability to choose a good name is not my fault.

no love for Jim Thompson?

Rhode islander sounds fine to me, desu fambalam

who is even from michigan? elmore leonard, thomas ligotti? joyce carol oates and hemingway both spend important time here

Ralph Ellison

Phillip K. Dick

Why its Mister Pynchon of course!

Trust me, any decent Illinoian spends at least one good moment in Michigan, and most surrounding states. Considerably, as a collective, an amount of time which equals to no time spent in Illinois.

>tfw Floridian

Thomas Wolfe

Maryland writers?

A.R. Ammons. Check him out. Start with "Sphere"

A bit of a pinko, but a damn fine writer and a good Coloradan.

Daniel Handler is cool, I guess. Aka Lemony Snicket. I kinda like his going off on tangents

He's "Southern" but not in the way that you mean it. Obvious because of how you dismissed Baltimore and Maryland.

Hemingway died here

Ambrose Bierce.

>Louisiana
ANNE RICE IS FUCKING GARBAGE and we have no one else that I recognize.

I'm floridian and can't think of anyone

Probably some author retired here, probably no natives

Thomas Ligotti? That's the only author from Michigan I can think of whose work I enjoyed.

Sinclair Lewis. Fuck Fitzgerald and Bob Dylan.

I never realised how shit-tier American literature was before I read this thread

American lit is pretty bad tbqh. Moby Dick is its only saving grace.

John Updike

It would probably be a toss up between him and Robert Lowell. Hawthorne seems like someone the gods spoke through and my one regret with him is that I was assigned to read The Scarlet Letter in high school (and not House of Seven Gables, the far superior work) and so hated it by default.

Jack Kerouac is unquestionably the worst writer of any renown to come out of Massachusetts. As Nabokov said of Hemingway, he's a "writer of books for boys." He's great to read while your in college and not much else.

This is only because very few people from New York or Massachusetts are posting. Most of the greatest authors came from there or did most of their work there. Most writers who made it in California were from a fly-over state or MA or NY.

I grew up in Durham, Maine where Stephen King spent his formative years (I believe.)
I also lean toward horror in my writing.
Isn't that sad?
I've never made it through one of his books, though I plan to some day.

The difference between Hawthorne and Kerouac is most people come to Kerouac by choice and Hawthorne by school. I don't mean this as a jab at Hawthorne because I recognize his genius, but you shouldn't deal such a slight hand to Kerouac. Kerouac has broad popular appeal without pandering to plebs.

It's always been a bit strange to me that very few great writers came from the South during the 1840's and 50's. There's Poe, but anyone else? Even Poe spent most of his life in Yankeedom.

We've got Joan and Chabon.

Edgar Allan Poe

utah was a mistake it's nothing but garbage

Fuck you Utah, Montana is the best goddamn state in the Union and we haven't done shit for it. Have some state pride you little prick

Hah! I had always thought she was from the East Coast. Chabon on the other hand is thoroughly east coast and not from here, not that I hold that against him.

Actually coming up with a list of native Californian writers is fairly hard. John Steinbeck is the only one who comes to mind. Most people come here and leave.

I've thought of another: Jack London.

>North Dakota
>Gass or Chuck fucking Klosterman
As much as I hate Gassposter(may he rest in peace) I'll have to go with the big guy.

Happy to hear this. I plan on moving to Montana within the year.

I don't know any writers from Minnesota. Fitzgerald doesn't count since he's a modernist writer.

You all have better schools. For examole in the south there are nice lazy prep schools like in Memphis but nothing like Andover. You all inherited love of knowledge from your puritan fathers.

>because he's a modernist writer
kys

Seriously? Sinclair Lewis.

Oh, I'm sure he will say something equally asinine, such as "he doesn't count because he's an atheist socialist."

I don't like modernist writers is all. Literally everything else is fine, even stupid stuff like postcolonialism.

Please explain. Compare and contrast modernism and postcolonialism.

You're asking me to explain my subjective preference. Well, there's no reason held in my mind for whether to like a particular movement other than through unconscious desire and its conscious notice: the desire is unknown.

As long as you replace the Californians, you're good m8. Anyone is better than the californians, even the shit tier people who move here from New York to "be a cowboy lol"

my high school algebra teacher wrote this literary masterpiece

>Florida, Missouri
>Population: 0

She wasn't from there, but Kate Chopin wrote a lot of stuff placed in Louisiana :)

Probably best to begin with Garbage or the lyrics imho. But a great, great poet. North Carolina also claims Thomas Wolfe.
Virginia checking in. It's tough but I'm choosing William Styron.

Mencken! Barth! C'mon dude!

He's totally from there and Suttree's his best novel. He's all yours brah.

Not a fan of Toole?
I thought everybody on this board loved Toole.

too many good ones to count: pbs.org/newshour/art/iowa-writers-workshop-turns-75/

What the FUCK!? Same here, user! I'm autistic too, by the way.

He's more of a normie writer.

Technically Poe is from Texas since he was born there.

Toole?

Charles Portis

Ah, Steinbeck would have been the correct choice.

I don't know if Chabon feels that east coast-y. Sure Kavalier and Clay was quintessential New York, but wasn't The Yiddish Police Man's Union quintessential Alaska?