The South Carolina Academy of Authors
Literary Hall of Fame

​Gilbert Allen (2014)
Dorothy Allison (2016)
​Marcus Amaker (2024)
Harry Scott Ashmore (1995)
Havilah Babcock (2001)
William P. Baldwin (2024)
James Lee Barrett (1998)
Jack Bass (2013)
John Bennett (1998)
Elise Blackwell (2019)
Cathy Smith Bowers (2017)
Benjamin Brawley (1991)
Gwen Bristow (2000)
Matthew J. Bruccoli (2001)
Franklin Burroughs (2012)
Orville Vernon Burton (2016)
Betsy Byars (2016)
Dan T. Carter (2017)
Wilbur Joseph Cash (1995) 
Mary Boykin Chesnut (1987)
Alice Childress (1990)
Elizabeth Boatwright Coker (1991)
Pat Conroy (1988)
James McBride Dabbs (1990)
Guy Davenport (2016)
Kwame Dawes (2009)
James Dickey (1986) 
Louise Jones DuBose (2001)
Nathalie Dupree (2018)
Pam Durban (2020) 
Marian Wright Edelman (2012)
Walter Edgar (2019)
Percival Everett (2011)
Nikky Finney (2013)
Starkey Flythe (2019)
William Price Fox (2010)
Dorothea Benton Frank (2015)
Andrew Geyer (2020) 
Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. (1998)
Caroline Gilman (1990)
Harlan Greene (2024)
Terrance Hayes (2013)
​Tommy Hays (2022)
Ann Head (2024)
DuBose Heyward (1987)
Jim Hoagland (2017)
Janette Turner Hospital (2014)
Josephine Humphreys (1994)
William Ioor (2015)
Dorothea Mauldin (Dot) Jackson (2010)
John Jakes (1996)
Charles Joyner (2012)
Sue Monk Kidd (2011)
Susan Petigru King (1994)
John Lane (2014)
James Mathewes Legare (2020)
Bret Lott (2015)
Susan Ludvigson (2009)
Grace Lumpkin (1996)
Benjamin E. Mays (1997)
Elliott Crayton McCants (1996)
Kelly Miller (1993)
Arthenia J. Bates Millican (2017)
Penina Moise (1999)
Mary Alice Monroe (2018)
Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith (2020)
Carrie Allen McCray Nickens (2009)
Kathleen Parker (2019)
Julia Peterkin (1986)
Josephine Pinckney (1988)
Elizabeth Allston Pringle (1994)
Robert Quillen (2014)
Ron Rash (2010)
Beatrice Witte Ravenel (1995)
​Glenis Redmond (2022)
Ennis Rees (1999)
James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (2008)
Katharine Ball Ripley (1998)
Ben Robertson (1992)
Eugene Robinson (2013)
George C. Rogers, Jr. (1997)
Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1987)
Archibald Rutledge (1999)
Dori Sanders (2000)
Valerie Sayers (2018)
William Gilmore Simms (1986)
Katherine Mayrant Simons (1997)
George Singleton (2010)
Monroe K. Spears (1993)
Frank Morrison "Mickey" Spillane (2012)
Elliott White Springs (2000)
Mark Steadman (2002)
Max Steele (1992)
Samuel Gaillard Stoney (1991)
Dorothy Perry Thompson (2002)
Henry Timrod (1992)
​George Brown Tindall (2022)
Ashley Warlick (2022)
Marjory Heath Wentworth (2015)
​John Blake White (2018)
Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey (2011)

The SCAA honors authors based on their literary merit. While exploring works by these authors, we recognize that readers might encounter content that may be disturbing, such as language or imagery that may be offensive because of its representation of race, gender, sexuality, beliefs, or other characteristics.