Indiana boasts many things that Hoosiers can be proud of (did you know we produced the limestone used to build the Empire State Building?) but perhaps the most important thing Indiana has to offer is our wealth of authors. A stroll through your local library or favorite bookstore provides book after book penned by famous Indiana authors, from Kurt Vonnegut to John Green.

We have compiled here (with the help of Indiana Historical Bureau and Carnegie Wabash Public Library) a list of Indiana authors for you to peruse.

Fiction Writers:

Ann Rinaldi

Barbara Shoup

Booth Tarkington

Charles Major

Dan Wakefield

Dorothy Drumm Hamilton

Edward Eggleston

Elisabeth H. Friermood

Gene Stratton-Porter

George Barr McCutcheon

James Alexander Thom

JD Phillips

Jean Shepherd

Jessamyn West

Kathryn Lasky

Kurt Vonnegut

Lew Wallace

Maurice Thompson

Michael Martone

Ross Lockridge, Jr.

Thomas Black

William J. Palmer

 

Children’s Book Authors:

Betty Jo Schuler

Bill Peet

Eth Clifford

Jeanette Covert Nolan

Mabel Leigh Hunt

Miriam E. Mason

Raymond McDonald Alden

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

 

Young Adult Writers:

John Green

Margaret McMullan

Phyllis Naylor

 

Mystery Writers:

Jeanne M. Dams

Joe L. Hensley

Kit Ehrman

P.M. Carlson

Rex Stout

Sara Hoskinson Frommer

Terence Faherty

Ralph McInerny

 

Playwrights:

George Ade

Joseph Hayes

Steven Sater

 

Poets:

James Whitcomb Riley

Jared Carter

Rebecca Lard

 

Illustrators/Cartoonists:

Jim Davis

John Gruelle

Kin Hubbard

Norman Bridwell

 

Essayists:

Aracelis Girmay

Scott Russell Sanders

Susan Neville

 

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