Gravely Concerned:

Southern Writers' Graves

John Soward Bayne

• Publisher: Clemson University Press
• Year: 2018
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781638041429
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

This book presents the graves of writers from the American South. The selection is based on the authors' popular or critical reputations and the appeal and accessibility of their grave sites. Some may dispute whether these subjects were sufficiently Southern, and whether they were truly writers, but this is certain: they're all dead. The pictures of their graves, presented chronologically, illustrate Southern literary history, and this book memorializes the artists, some famous and some obscure.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Image
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Second Title
• David Crockett (1786–1836)
• Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847)
• Alexander Gallatin McNutt (1802–1848)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
• Caroline Lee Hentz (1800–1856)
• Thomas Holley Chivers (1809–1858)
• James Mathewes Legaré (1823–1859)
• William Elliott (1788–1863)
• Henry Timrod (1829–1867)
• George Washington Harris (1814–1869)
• William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)
• Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870)
• John Pendleton Kennedy (1795–1870)
• Penina Moïse (1797–1880)
• Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
• Mary Ann Bryan Mason (1802–1881)
• William Tappan Thompson (1812–1882)
• Sherwood Bonner (1849–1883)
• James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1797–1884)
• Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886)
• Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886)
• William Clark Falkner (1825–1889)
• Henry Grady (1850–1889)
• Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. (1831–1893)
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
• Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897)
• William Malone Baskervill (1850–1899)
• Albery Allson Whitman (1851–1901)
• Sam Watkins (1839–1901)
• John Brown Gordon Coogler (1865–1901)
• Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903)
• Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
• John Charles McNeill (1874–1907)
• James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)
• Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908)
• Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835–1909)
• Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• O. Henry (1862–1910)
• Thomas Cooper De Leon (1839–1914)
• Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856–1915)
• Christian Reid (1846–1920)
• Mary Noailles Murfree (1850–1922)
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924)
• George Washington Cable (1844–1925)
• Ambrose Elliott Gonzales (1857–1926)
• Sarah Bull Barnwell Elliott (1848–1928)
• Frances Newman (1883–1928)
• John Trotwood Moore (1856–1929)
• Grace Elizabeth King (1851–1932)
• Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932)
• Corra Mae White Harris (1869–1935)
• Mary Johnston (1870–1936)
• Robert Ervin Howard (1906–1936)
• James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
• Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)
• Abbie Mandana Holmes Christensen (1852–1938)
• Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855–1938)
• Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863–1938)
• DuBose Heyward (1885–1940)
• Wilbur Joseph Cash (1900–1941)
• William Alexander Percy (1885–1942)
• Ben Robertson (1903–1943)
• John Peale Bishop (1892–1944)
• Henry Bellamann (1882–1945)
• Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
• Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864–1946)
• Lyle Saxon (1891–1946)
• George Madden Martin (1866–1946)
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)
• Hervey Allen (1889–1949)
• John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950)
• Douglas Southall Freeman (1866–1953)
• Emily Clark (1891–1953)
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953)
• James Street (1903–1954)
• James Agee (1909–1955)
• Beatrice Witte Ravenel (1870–1956)
• John Bennett (1865–1956)
• Josephine Pinckney (1895–1957)
• James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)
• Byron Herbert Reece (1917–1958)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
• Julia Peterkin (1880–1961)
• William Faulkner (1897–1962)
• Stark Young (1891–1963)
• John Faulkner (1901–1963)
• Hamilton Basso (1904–1964)
• Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
• T. S. Stribling (1881–1965)
• Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)
• Hubert Creekmore (1907–1966)
• Lillian Smith (1897–1966)
• Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
• Donald Davidson (1893–1968)
• Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons (1890–1969)
• John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969)
• James McBride Dabbs (1896–1970)
• Hodding Carter (1907–1972)
• Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902–1973)
• Conrad Aiken (1889–1973)
• Archibald Rutledge (1883–1973)
• John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
• Allen Tate (1899–1979)
• John Jacob Niles (1892–1980)
• Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)
• Paul Green (1894–1981)
• Harry Golden (1902–1981)
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
• Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
• Walter Tevis (1928–1984)
• Truman Capote (1924–1984)
• William Bradford Huie (1910–1986)
• Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
• Walker Percy (1916–1990)
• Alex Haley (1921–1992)
• Caroline Miller (1903–1992)
• Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994)
• Andrew Lytle (1902–1995)
• Eugenia Price (1916–1996)
• James Dickey (1923–1997)
• Eugene Walter (1921–1998)
• Margaret Walker Alexander (1915–1998)
• Willie Morris (1934–1999)
• Richard Marius (1933–1999)
• Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
• Larry Brown (1951–2004)
• Shelby Foote (1916–2005)
• Burke Davis (1913–2006)
• William Styron (1925–2006)
• Wilma Dykeman (1920–2006)
• “Scattered, Smothered, and Covered”
• Bibliography
• About the Author