A bit early? Yes, but I was thinking it would be fun to read the US. Each week I pick an author from each state to read from them. I figured this is the best place to go. 🙂
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
by RandomCoffeeThoughts
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Kansas authors – Laura Moriarity, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Clare Vanderpool, Grant Snider (picture books), Nancy Pickard
NC is my home state, so Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Great books.
In my opinion, East of Eden is like the quintessential California novel. Good luck!
Nebraska – Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, Ted Kooser, Lydia Kang, Rainbow Rowell
Not sure of what genres you’re searching for, so throwing out random popular authors from states that I can think of
Alabama – Harper Lee
Mississippi – William Faulkner
Louisiana – Anne Rice
Georgia – Alice Walker
Missouri – Maya Angelou, Mark Twain
Ohio – Toni Morrison
Illinois – Phillip K. Dick
Indiana – Kurt Vonnegut
New Jersey – George R.R. Martin
Maine – Stephen King
Maryland – Nora Roberts
Philadelphia – Louisa May Alcott
Wisconsin: He wasn’t born there, but lived and taught and wrote there – Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac
If you’re looking for a WI-born author, Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House series) and Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game)
Minnesota: Kelly Barnhill
Are you wanting the author to have grown up in the state, for them to have lived there or that the book is set in that state?
Alaska: Never Broken by Jewel
Hawaii: Hula by Jasmine Iolani Hakes
New Mexico: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (I know she lived there for a time)