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Post the best author from your home city/state.

>Kurt Vonnegut
>Indianapolis, Indiana

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i don't live there now, but it's my home state. i visit it often.

>> No.23522619

>>23522264
Ernest Hemingway though I don’t care about him much. He is the only artistic sorta person to have ever shacked up in this prairie dump.

>> No.23522642

>>23522264
Florida and I'm going to claim Emerson even though he wasn't raised here, wasn't educated here, and I doubt he wrote anything here.... Fuck that other writer that moved to key west. I don't even remember their name, but fuck them they're retarded.

>> No.23522965

>>23522264
>>23522601
>>23522619
Hard as a rock right now.

>> No.23523062

>>23522264
Can't think of anyone from my city, so I'll say someone from my country (recent, not ancient)
Kavafys for poetry
Karkavitsas or Papadiamantis for stories

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NC, literally the only author of note. Fitzgerald lived here a couple years too, but I don't think he counts.

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>>23522264

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California bros, get in here

>> No.23523307

>>23522264
Probly Philip Roth
I don’t think we can claim Fitzgerald though he did go to college here.
William Carlos Williams I guess
I always thought our claims to Walt Whitman were pretty dubious too

>> No.23523309

>>23523307
>philip middlebrow schlock over WCW
Kek this board

>> No.23523330

>>23523298
California, Steinbeck, Get Captcha, Post.

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>>23522264
I realise this is a Yank thread right now, but I'll post anyways. Robert Graves is the only notable writer from where I live (Wimbledon). I could say Raymond Briggs too but he's more /co/ than /lit/.
Though I was just looking through wikipedia and apparently Steve-O was born here, for some reason.

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Honestly you can completely understand his worldview if you've lived in Detroit long enough.

>> No.23523407

That nigga who wrote Tarka the Otter. There's a plaque in a local pub talking about how he grew up in the area.

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>>23523298
It’s Saroyan for me Calibros…

I also think we can claim “California” novels of many prominent writers e.g. Henry Miller, Brautigan, Kerouac

>> No.23523449

>>23523436
I read the human comedy and school and don't remember it at all, should give it a reread

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This QWEEN. Can u beleeb whitey wouldnt let dem swimb in da pool? Had to read this shit every year in school.

>> No.23523469

>>23522264
i'm counting Poe for Maryland because we don't have shit else.

>> No.23524560

>>23523469
Bitch, H.L. Mencken.

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Unironically the most prolific writer from my city. Oh well, at least we produced Panic at the Disco, Five Finger Death Punch, and Imagine Dragons.

>> No.23524590

I think I might be the only writer from my home city who is at all know outside the immediate area, not that this means anything, the competition is thin. For the state, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and Robert Bly are the big ones. I would got with Lewis, Fitzgerald mostly gave up midwestern status even if it did inform his writing. Bly is decent but I am not big on poetry. Laura Ingalls Wilder gets a nod but her writing is kind of thin.

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>>23523275
Louisiana chads rise up

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>> No.23524667

>>23523309
>Plums were delicious
>Red wheelbarrow with white chickens

I thinking the horny Hebrew was the right choice
Modernist Anti-poetry slop should never be venerated

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Ahem...
>Me

>> No.23524816

>>23523436
Brautigan was born in WA, you nonce. You semen slurpers can’t claim shit

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>>23522264
I'm not aware of any Calgarian authors; it looks like I have no choice but to pave the way.

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Manchester, England. It's probably Morrissey but I also like John Cooper Clarke.

>> No.23526265

>>23526254
Fuck I forgot Anthony Burgess also. Clockwork Orange is great and I'm going to read The Wanting Seed soon.

>> No.23527157

>>23522264
HP Lovecraft

>> No.23527159

>>23524645
Based fellow Rhode Islander

>> No.23527172

Colorado doesn't have anything. Philip K. Dick is buried here. There's no regional culture, so no good writing.

>> No.23527181

>where do you live
data mining thread

>> No.23527207

>Cleveland Ohio

Probably Toni Morrison. Various SF/F writers too, like Ellison, Donaldson and Zelazny.