Georgia literature

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A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762.{{Citation |publisher = Southworth-Anthoensen Press |location = Portland, Maine |title = The Colonial Printer |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/colonialprinter00wrot#page/15/mode/1up |via=Internet Archive |author = Lawrence C. Wroth |date = 1938 |chapter=Diffusion of Printing }} (Fulltext)

Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847).{{cite book |editor1=Charles Reagan Wilson |editor2=William Ferris |title=Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |isbn=0807818232 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=1989 |chapter-url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/antebellum.html |chapter=Antebellum Era |via=Documenting the American South |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofso00dia_teb }} In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.{{sfn|Flanders|1944|p={{pn|date=March 2024}}}}

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales."{{cite book |chapter= Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings |author= R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. |title= American History Through Literature 1870-1920 |editor1= Tom Quirk |editor2= Gary Scharnhorst |location=Detroit |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons |year= 2006 |isbn=9780684314938 }}

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta."{{cite book |editor=Emory Elliott |title= Columbia History of the American Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiahistoryo00elli |url-access=registration |year= 1991 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-07360-8 }}{{pn|date=March 2024}}

The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.

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• :Category:Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
• List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)
• :Category:Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction
• :Category:Libraries in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism

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• {{cite book|title=Library of Southern Literature |editor= Lucian Lamar Knight |publisher= Martin and Hoyt Company |location=Atlanta |year= 1913

|chapter= Fifty Reading Courses: Georgia

|volume=16 |page=186+

|hdl= 2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=494 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=494

|via=HathiTrust

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• {{cite book

|author= Elsie Dershem |title= Outline of American State Literature |publisher=World Company |location= Lawrence, Kansas |year= 1921

|chapter= Georgia |pages=

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/outlineofamerica001157mbp#page/n43/mode/2up |via= Internet Archive

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• {{Citation |title=Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside |year= 1940 |publisher = University of Georgia Press |location = Athens

|author= Federal Writers' Project |series = American Guide Series

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pn8268VQCJMC |via= Google Books

|chapter= Literature

|pages= 117–125

|isbn= 9781603540100

}}

• {{cite book|author= Bertram Holland Flanders |title=Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865 |year= 2010 |orig-year= 1944 |publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3536-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-6sMJCLoM-YC

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• {{cite book|author= G. Thomas Tanselle |title=Guide to the Study of United States Imprints |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetostudyofun0002tans |url-access= registration |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-36761-6 |year= 1971 }} (Includes information about Georgia literature)
• Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
• Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Nonfiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
• Michael E. Price, Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
• Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Poetry (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
• {{cite book |editor1= Joseph M. Flora |editor2= Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan |title= Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs |publisher= Louisiana State University Press |isbn= 978-0-8071-2692-9 |year= 2001 |chapter= Literature of Georgia |pages= [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780807126929/page/294 294–302] |author= Rayburn S. Moore |ref= {{harvid|Moore|2001}} |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780807126929/page/294 }}
• Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/united/products_services/literarylandmarks/landmarksbystate/landmarksbystate |title=Literary Landmarks by State: Georgia |publisher= American Library Association |location=Chicago |author= United for Libraries |date=27 February 2009 }}
• {{cite web |title=Georgia Historic Books |quote=Books related to Georgia's history and culture |via= Digital Library of Georgia |url=https://www.galileo.usg.edu/scholar/databases/zlgb/?Welcome}} (Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.)
• {{cite web |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315014710/http://www.geckosgeorgia.com/georgia-authors.php |url= http://www.geckosgeorgia.com/georgia-authors.php |url-status=dead |archivedate=March 15, 2012 |title= Georgia Authors |work=Gecko's Georgia |editor=Scott Thompson }}
• {{citation |encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=Georgia Humanities Council |title=Topics: Media: Magazines and Journals |url= http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/topics/media }}
• {{cite web |url= http://dmoztools.net/Regional/North_America/United_States/Georgia/Arts_and_Entertainment/Literature/ |work=DMOZ |publisher=AOL |title= Georgia: Arts and Entertainment: Literature }} (Directory ceased in 2017)

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