Appalachia, general:

• Alther, Lisa
• Arnow, Harriette
• Beaver, Patricia Duane
• Bell, Thelma
• Bridgers, Sue Ellen
• Cadle, Dean
• Carroll, Ruth
• Carson, Jo
• Caudill, Harry
• Caudill, Rebecca
• Chappell, Fred
• Clark, Billy C.
• Cleaver, Bill & Vera
• Dickey, James
• Dillard, Annie
• DiSanto, Grace
• Drake, Robert
• Dykeman, Wilma
• Ehle, John
• Francis, Herbert Edward, Jr.
• Furr, William
• Giardina, Denise
• Gilkerson, Seth
• Godwin, Gail
• Goode, James B.
• Green, Lewis
• Grubb, Davis
• Hamner, Earl
• Hazel, Robert
• Hulme, Francis
• Hunter, Kermit
• Jones, Madison
• Justus, May
• Knowles, John
• Lehman, Yvonne
• Linney, Romulus
• McCarthy, Cormac
• McConnehey, Nelljean
• McNeil, Louise
• McWhirter, Millie
• Madden, David
• Maddux, Rachel
• Marion, Jeff Daniel
• Marius, Richard
• Miller, Caroline
• Miller, Jim Wayne
• Montgomery, Marion
• Morehouse, Kathleen
• Morgan, Robert
• Norman, Gurney
• Pennington, Lee
• Powell, Talmage
• Rackham, Jeff
• Rice, Paul
• Roberts, Dorothy James
• Scarbrough, George
• Settle, Mary Lee
• Sherburne, James
• Shell, Betsy
• Sinclair, Bennie Lee
• Smith, Lee
• Steadman, Mark
• Stewart, Albert
• Stewart, Dabney
• Still, James
• Stuart, Jesse
• Turner, Kermit
• Webb, Jim
• West, John Foster
• West, Don
• Wheeler, Billy Ed
• Williams, Jonathan
• Young, Charlotte

Western North Carolina:

• Thelma Harrington Bell (near Highlands)
• Kathryn Stripling Byer (Webster)
• Ruth Carroll
• Mary Ulmer Chiltosky (Cherokee)
• Vera Cleaver (Watauga Co.)
• Olive Tilford Dargan (Swain Co.)
• Irene Dayton (Flat Rock)
• Grace DiSanto (Morganton)
• Hilda Downer (Bandana)
• Wilma Dykeman (Asheville)
• Gail Godwin (Asheville)
• Gail E. Haley (Boone)
• Kathleen Morehouse (North Wilkesboro)
• Dorothy Ogburn (Highlands)
• Nancy Simpson (Hayesville)
• Charlotte Young (Asheville)

Fiction:

RUTH CARROLL (Asheville) juvenile literature
What Whiskers Did (1932)
Chessie and Her Kittens (1937)
Scuffles (1943)
Pet Tale (1949)
Where's the Bunny? (1950)
Peanut (1951)
Beanie (1953)
Tough Enough (1954)
Digby, the Only Dog (1955)
Tough Enough's Trip (1956)
Tough Enough's Pony (1957)
Tough Enough and Sassy (1958)
Bounce and the Bunnies (1959)
Tough Enough's Indians (1960)
Old Mrs. Billups and the Black Cats (1961)
Runaway Pony, Runaway Dog (1963)
From the Appalachians (1964)
Danny and the Poi Pup (1965)
The Chimp and the Clown (1968)
Bubble Pup (1968)
The Christmas Kitten (1970)
The Managing Hen and the Floppy Hound (1972)
Rolling Downhill (1973)
The Witch Kitten (1973)
The Dolphin and the Mermaid (1974)
Hullabaloo, the Elephant Dog (1975)
Hatha Yoga (1976)

THELMA HARRINGTON BELL (near Highlands) juvenile literature; many with Corydon Bell
Black Face (1931)
Mountain Boy (1947)
Pawnee (1950)
Yaller-Eye (1951)
Snow (1954)
Take It Easy (1956)
Thunderstorm (1960)
The Two Worlds of Davy Blount (1962)
The Riddle of Time (1963)
A Dash of Pepper (1965)
North Carolina (1970) non-fiction

MARY ULMER CHILTOSKY (Cherokee) known as the "Cherokee Storytelling Lady"
Cherokee Cooklore (1951)
To Make My Bread (1951)
Cherokee Stories (n.d.)

VERA CLEAVER (Watauga Co.) young adult literature including a series about North Carolina mountain children with serious problems
Ellen Grae (1967)
Lady Ellen Grae (1968)
Where the Lillies Bloom (1969)
Grover (1970)
The Mimosa Tree (1970)
The Mock Revolt (1971)
I Would Rather Be a Turnip (1971)
Delpha Green & Company (1972)
Me Too (1973)
The Whys and Wherefores of Littabelle Lee (1973)
Dust of the Earth (1975)
Trial Valley (1977)
Queen of Hearts (1978)
A Little Destiny (1979)
The Kissimmee Kid (1981)
Hazel Rye (1983)
Sugar Blue (1984)
Sweetly Sings the Donkey (1985)
Moon Lake Angel (1987)
Belle Pruitt (1988)

OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN (Swain Co., Asheville) also used pen name Fielding Burke
Semiramis and Other Plays (1904) plays
Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas (1906) plays
The Mortal Gods (1912) plays
The Welsh Pony (1913) short stories
Path Flower (1914) poetry
The Cycle's Rim (1916) poetry
The Flutter of the Gold Leaf and Other Plays (1922) plays with Frederick Peterson
Lute and Furrow (1922) poetry
Call Home the Heart (1932) novel by Fielding Burke
A Stone Came Rolling (1935) novel by Fielding Burke
Highland Annals (1935) short stories
From My Highest Hill (1941) short stories
Sons of the Stranger (1947) novel by Fielding Burke
The Spotted Hawk (1958) poetry
Innocent Bigamy and Other Stories (1962) short stories

IRENE DAYTON (Flat Rock) poetry
The Sixth Sense Quivers (1970)
The Panther's Eye (1974)
Seven Times The Wind (1977)
In Oxbow of Time's River (1978)

GRACE DISANTO (Morganton)
The Eye is Single (1981) poetry

WILMA DYKEMAN (Asheville)
The French Broad (1955) historical non-fiction
Neither Black Nor White (1957) non-fiction about segregation in the South
The Border States (1960) non-fiction
The Tall Woman (1962) novel
Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years of W. D. Weatherford (1966) biography
The Far Family (1966) novel
Look to this Day (1968)
Return the Innocent Earth (1973) novel
Too Many People, Too Little Love (1974) biography about Edna Rankin McKinnon, birth control pioneer
Tennessee: A Bicentenniel History (1975)
Centennial History (1976) non-fiction
Highland Homeland: The People of the Great Smokies (1976) history handbook with Jim Stokely
Seeds of Southern Change (1976) non-fiction on race relations in the South
Tennessee Women, Past and Present (1977) non-fiction
With Fire and Sword (1978) non-fiction
The Appalachian Mountains (1980) photo essay with Dykeman Stokely
At Home in the Smokies (1984) historical non-fiction
Explorations (1984) essays
Tennessee: A Homecoming (1985)

GAIL E. HALEY (Charlotte, Boone) children's literature and illustration; founder and creator of the Gail Haley Collection of the Culture of Childhood at Appalachian State University
A Story, A Story (1970) won Caldecott Medal
Noah's Ark (1971)
Jack Jouett's Ride (1973)
The Abominable Swamp Man (1975)
The Post Office Cat (1976) won Kate Greenaway Medal
Go Away, Stay Away (1979)
The Green Man (1979)
Puss in Boots (1979)
Birdsong (1984)
Jack and the Bean Tree (1986)
Jack and the Fire Dragon (1988)
Sea Tale (1990)

DOROTHY OGBURN (Highlands) murder mysteries
Death on the Mountain (1931)
The Star of England (1952)
Shake-Spear: The Man Behind the Name (1962)

Non-Fiction:

CHRISTIAN REID (Salisbury) also published under Frances Christian Fisher Tiernan; mostly light romances, some novels for young readers
Valerie Aylmer (1870)
Mabel Lee (1871)
Morton House (1871)
Ebb-Tide and Other Stories (1872)
Carmen's Inheritance (1873)
Nina's Attonment, and Other Stories (1873) short stories
Daughter of Bohemia (1874)
A Question of Honor (1875)
Hearts and Hands (1875)
Land of the Sky (1876)
After Many Days (1877)
A Summer Idyl (1878)
Bonnie Kate ((1878)
A Gentle Bell (1879)
Heart of Steel (1883)
A Child of Mary (1885)
Roslyn's Fortune (1885)
His Victory (1887)
Miss Churchill (1887)
A Cast for Fortune (1890)
Carmela (1891)
The Lost Lode (1892)
A Little Maid of Arcady (1893)
Comedy of Elopement (1893)
Land of the Sun (1894)
A Woman of Fortune (1896)
The Picture of Las Cruces (1896)
Fairy Gold (1897)
The Man of the Family (1897)
The Chase of an Heiress (1898)
Under the Southern Cross (1900) play
Weighed In The Balance (1900)
A Daughter of the Sierra (1903)
The Wargrave Trust (1912)

CHARLOTTE YOUNG (Asheville) poetry
The Heart Has Reasons (1953)
Speak to Us of Love (1959)
Thunder in Winter (1977)
Day of Miracles (1978) poems and two short plays
Bless Your Heart: Selected Poems (1980)
Humor and Haiku (1984)

Poetry: