Literature & Authors

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Accomplices to the Crime
Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform t...
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Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins (1884–1973)
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...
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Adult Learning Alliance of Arkansas
The mission statement of the Adult Learning Alliance of Arkansas (ALA), located in Little Rock (Pulaski County...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Arkansas Sections of)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), best known by his pen na...
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The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas
Written by the ninth governor of Arkansas, Powell Clayton, The Aftermath of the Civil War in Arkansas recounts...
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Larry Dell Alexander (1953–2021)
Larry Dell Alexander was a visual artist, writer, and Bible teacher best known for his elaborate pen-and-ink d...
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All the Young Men
All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South is a memoir by Ruth Coker B...
Charles Wilson Allbright (1929–2015)
Charles Wilson Allbright was one of the best-known and most widely read newspaper columnists in Arkansas. Allb...
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Along Came a Cowboy
Along Came a Cowboy is a 2008 romance novel by Arkansas writer Christine Lynxwiler, the author of more than a ...
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Always
Always is a 1990 romance novel written by M. J. (Jodi) Morris (under the name Jo Morrison) and published by Ha...
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The American Spa
The American Spa: Hot Springs, Arkansas is 1982 work of history written by Dee Brown, author of the bestsellin...
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Daisy Anderson (1900?-1998)
Educator, author, and lecturer Daisy Graham Anderson is best known for being one of the last surviving widows ...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
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Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
aka: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou was an internationally renowned bestselling author, po...
Annals of Arkansas
The Annals of Arkansas comprise four volumes of narrative and biographical histories of Arkansas, written by s...
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The Annunciation
Ellen Gilchrist’s first novel, The Annunciation, was published by Little, Brown in 1983. It followed her fir...
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Another Good Loving Blues
Another Good Loving Blues is a 1993 novel by African American writer Arthur Flowers, a native of Memphis, Tenn...
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Another Kind of Love
Another Kind of Love is a 1983 romance novel written by Mary Lynn Baxter and published by Silhouette Books (wh...
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Katharine Susan Anthony (1877–1965)
Katharine Susan Anthony was suffragist, feminist, pacifist, socialist, and author of feminist and psychologica...
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Any Empire
Any Empire is a 2011 graphic novel by North Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Nate Powell, published by Top ...
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Jack Appleby (1907–1974)
aka: John Tate Appleby
Arkansas native John Tate (Jack) Appleby was a biographer of Englis...
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The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
“We begin with an ending.” The first sentence of Donald Harington’s 1975 novel The Architecture of the A...
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Arkansas [Book and Movie]
The book Arkansas is a debut novel by John Brandon that was originally released in 2008 by McSweeney’s Publi...
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Arkansas Assault (The Trailsman No. 263)
Arkansas Assault is a 2003 novel attributed to Jon Sharpe, no. 263 in the Trailsman series of short adult-them...
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Arkansas Historical Quarterly (AHQ)
The Arkansas Historical Quarterly (AHQ) is the official publication of the Arkansas Historical Association (AH...
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Arkansas Kit; or The River Sprite’s Choice: A Tale of the Crowfoot Country
Arkansas Kit; or, The River Sprite’s Choice: A Tale of the Crowfoot Country by W. J. Hamilton, is a “dime ...
Arkansas Literary Forum
The Arkansas Literary Forum (ALF) was an internet literary journal published each fall by Henderson State Univ...
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Arkansas Made [Books]
The Arkansas Made books are a two-volume set researched and written by two leaders of the Arkansas Territorial...
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Arkansas Philological Association
The Arkansas Philological Association is a learned society founded in 1974 at Arkansas State University (ASU)....
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The Arkansas Race Riot
“The Arkansas Race Riot” is a 1920 pamphlet that constitutes a critical source of information about the El...
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Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies publishes creative and scholarly works focusing on the seven-state...
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Arkansas Special Agents
Arkansas Special Agents is a three-book series written by Maggie Wells (pen name for Margaret Ethridge) and pu...