• Jesmyn Ward
• Tom Franklin
• Larry Brown
• Margaret Walker
• Ellen Gilchrist

Jesmyn Ward and Tom Franklin

Featured items, left to right:

• Sing, Unburied, Sing: a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Scribner (2017)
• Salvage the Bones: a novel / Jesmyn Ward. Bloomsbury (2011).
• Notebook kept by Tom Franklin while writing Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter / Tom Franklin. Harper Perennial, UM Common Read Edition (2012).

Larry Brown

Featured items, left to right:

• A Miracle of Catfish / Larry Brown. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2007).
• Hand-drawn map including “Cortez’s Place,” “Jimmy’s daddy’s trailer,” and “cotton fields”

Margaret Walker and Ellen Gilchrist

Featured items, left to right:

• Jubilee / Margaret Walker. Houghton Mifflin (1966).
• Promotional materials for Jubilee
• Net of Jewels / Ellen Gilchrist. Little Brown and Co. (1992).
• Letter from Ellen Gilchrist to Willie Morris. 19 February 1991.