Contents

Introduction

1.Eudora Welty’s Garden

JACKSON, MS

2.Richard Wright’s Schoolhouse

JACKSON, MS

3.William Faulkner’s Liquor Cabinet

OXFORD, MS

4.Flannery O’Connor’s Peacocks

MILLEDGEVILLE, GA

5.Harry Crews’s Hurricane Creek

BACON COUNTY, GA

6.Harper Lee and Truman Capote’s Courthouse

MONROEVILLE, AL

7.John Kennedy Toole’s Hot-Dog Carts

NEW ORLEANS, LA

8.Barry Hannah and Larry Brown’s Fishing Spot

OXFORD, MS

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

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