The following list of Mississippi writers is sorted by their year of birth. Earliest births appear first. Several writers whose birth years have not yet been determined follow.

• Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)
• Alexander G. McNutt (1802?-1848)
• J.F.H. Claiborne (1807-1884)
• Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877)
• Reuben Davis (1813-1890)
• Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864)
• Catherine Ann Warfield (1816-1877)
• Joseph Beckham Cobb (1819-1858)
• William C. Hall (1819-1865)
• L.Q.C. Lamar (1825-1893)
• Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850)
• William Clark Falkner (1826-1889)
• Samuel Newton Berryhill (1832-1877)
• Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904)
• John Roy Lynch (1847-1939)
• Sherwood Bonner (1849-1883)
• Pearl Rivers (1849-1896)
• Irwin Russell (1853-1879)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
• Belle Kearney (1863-1939)
• Walter Malone (1866-1915)
• Harris Dickson (1868-1946)
• Katherine Bellamann (1877-1956)
• David Edgar Guyton (1880-1964)
• Stark Young (1881-1963)
• Laurence C. Jones (1882-1975)
• Howard Washington Odum (1884-1954)
• William Alexander Percy (1885-1942)
• Reuben G. Davis (1889-1966)
• Frances Gaither (1889-1955)
• Larry Semon (1889-1928)
• Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953)
• Cid Ricketts Sumner (1890-1970)
• Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954)
• Dumas Malone (1892-1986)
• Muna Lee (1895-1965)
• Rosewell Graves Lowrey (1895-1979)
• David Lewis Cohn (1897-1960)
• William Faulkner (1897-1962)
• Edwin Granberry (1897-    )
• Charlemae Rollins (1897-1979)
• Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963)
• Murry C. Falkner (1899-1975)
• Benjamin Franklin Wasson (1899-1982)
• [William] Turner Catledge (1901-1983)
• John Faulkner (1901-1963)
• Thomas D. Clark (1903-   )
• James Howell Street (1903-1954)
• Jonathan Henderson Brooks (1905-1945)
• Alice Walworth Graham (1905-    )
• William Hodding Carter, II (1907-1972)
• Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966)
• James W. Silver (1907-   )
• Red Barber (1908-1992)
• Nash K. Burger (1908-1996)
• Richard Wright (1908-1960)
• Henry Dalton (1909-   )
• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
• Lehman Engel (1910-1982)
• William Attaway (1911-1986)
• Jack Fenwick (1911-   )
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
• Velma Sanders (1912-1979)
• Robert Sargent (1912-   )
• Charlotte Capers (1913-1996)
• Charles Henri Ford (1913-    )
• Margaret Morgan Lawrence (1914-    )
• Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998)
• Elliot Chaze (1915-    )
• Bern Keating (1915-    )
• Charles G. Bell (1916-    )
• Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
• Walker Percy (1916-1990)
• Isabella M. Brown (1917-   )
• Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
• Louis Dollarhide (1918-    )
• William Edward Kimbrough (1918-    )
• Rollie McKenna (1918-    )
• Frank Smith (1918-    )
• M. Carl Holman (1919-   )
• Berry Morgan (1919-2002)
• Craig Claiborne (1920-    )
• David Herbert Donald (1920-    )
• Ruth Ford (1920-   )
• Ellen Douglas (1921-2012)
• Erin Clayton Pitner (1921-   )
• J. Edgar Simmons (1921-1979)
• Elizabeth Spencer (1921-    )
• Wirt Alfred Williams (1921-1986)
• Borden Deal (1922-1985)
• Charles Evers (1922-   )
• Thomas Hal Phillips (1922-    )
• George Thatcher (1922-    )
• besmilr brigham (1923-    )
• Malcolm Franklin (1923-1977)
• Martha Lacy Hall (1923-    )
• Jimmy Faulkner (1923-2001)
• Florence Mars (1923-   )
• Will Davis Campbell (1924-2013)
• Charles East (1924-    )
• John Nixon, Jr. (1924-   )
• Robert Canzoneri (1925-    )
• Medgar Evers (1925-1963)
• Evans Harrington (1925-1997)
• Charles Moorman (1925-   )
• John A[lfred] Williams (1925-    )
• Jerry Clower (1926-1998)
• John Crews (1926-   )
• Loyle Hairston (1926-   )
• Ann Odene Smith (1926-   )
• Frank Trippett (1926-1998)
• Wyatt Cooper (1927-1978)
• Patrick D. Smith (1927-    )
• Lerone Bennett (1928-    )
• James Forman (1928-   )
• Dorothy Twiss (1928-   )
• Joan Williams (1928-2004)
• Turner Cassity (1929-   )
• Paul Conklin (1929-   )
• Willie Cook (1929-   )
• Jere Hoar (1929-    )
• Joyce Hollingsworth-Barkley (1929-   )
• Jack Nelson (1929-    )
• Patsy Clark Pace (1929-   )
• Lavine Rogers (1929-   )
• Don Schueler (1929-   )
• Sinclair O. Lewis (1930-   )
• Clayton Sullivan (1930-    )
• Ovid Vickers (1930-    )
• Winthrop Jordan (1931-    )
• Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
• Ben E. Bailey (1932-   )
• Cecile Brown Clement (1932-   )
• James A. Autry (1933-    )
• Myrlie Evers-Williams (1933-    )
• Phyllis Harper (1933-   )
• Kenneth Holditch (1933-   )
• James Meredith (1933-   )
• Jack Bass (1934-    )
• Patti Carr Black (1934-    )
• Willie Morris (1934-    )
• Anne Carsley (1935-    )
• Mart Crowley (1935-   )
• Ellen Gilchrist (1935-    )
• William Mills (1935-    )
• William Raspberry (1935-2012)
• Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (1935-2005)
• Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)
• Patricia Boatner (1936-   )
• Jim Henson (1936-1990)
• Edwin King (1936-   )
• Thomas [Tom] McHaney (1936-   )
• John Stone (1936-    )
• Glenn Robert Swetman (1936-   )
• Dean Faulkner Wells (1936-    )
• James Whitehead (1936-2003)
• Jay Higginbotham (1937-    )
• Billie Jean Young (1947-    )
• Gloria Norris (1937-    )
• L. C. Dorsey (1938-   )
• Robert Hamblin (1938-   )
• Robert Herring (1938-    )
• Beverly Lowry (1938-    )
• Barbara Ensrud (1939-    )
• Richard Freis (1939-   )
• John Little (1939-   )
• John F. Marszalek (1939-    )
• Lewis Nordan (1939-2012)
• James Seay (1939-    )
• Sue C. Spigner (1939-   )
• Chester Sullivan (1939-    )
• Otis Williams (1939-1997)
• Charles Wilson (1939-    )
• Al Young (1939-    )
• Price Caldwell (1940-    )
• Jack Crocker (1940-   )
• Don Lee Keith (1940-   )
• Anne Moody (1940-    )
• Sterling D. Plumpp (1940-    )
• Thomas Harris (1940-    )
• Brenda E. Sartoris (1940-   )
• Nayo-Barbara Malcolm Watkins (1940-   )
• Gayle Graham Yates (1940-   )
• John Armistead (1941-    )
• Margaret Kent (1941-   )
• Shannon Riley (1941-   )
• Paul Ruffin (1941-   )
• Jessie Schell (1941-   )
• Otha Richard Sullivan (1941-    )
• Lawrence Wells (1941-    )
• D. C. Berry (1942-    )
• Sybil Pittman Estess (1942-   )
• William R. Ferris (1942-    )
• John P. Freeman (1942-   )
• Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
• James R. Scafidel (1942-    )
• Dorothy Sample Shawhan (1942-    )
• William Sullivan (1942-   )
• Frederick Barthelme (1943-    )
• Virgia Brocks-Shedd (1943-   )
• Joyce A. Ladner (1943-    )
• Linda Peavy (1943-   )
• Noel Polk (1943-   )
• Mildred D. Taylor (1943-    )
• Henry Tim [Chambers] (1903-   )
• Luke Wallin (1943-    )
• Jerry Ward (1943-    )
• Austin Wilson (1943-    )
• Charles Burnett (1944-    )
• Jack Butler (1944-    )
• Rosalie Burkes Daniels (1944-   )
• Richard Ford (1944-    )
• Rebecca Hill (1944-    )
• Endesha Ida Mae Holland (1944-    )
• Emory Davis Jones (1944-    )
• Sheldon B. Webster (1944-    )
• Randolph Bates (1945-   )
• Larry Johnson (1945-   )
• Clifton L. Taulbert (1945-    )
• Howard Bahr (1946-    )
• Jimmy Buffett (1946-   )
• Carol Cox (1946-   )
• Claire T. Feild (1946-     )
• Sid Graves (1946-   )
• Stephen Owen (1946-   )
• Walter F. “Jack” Pratt, Jr. (1946-   )
• Julius Thompson (1946-    )
• Steven Barthelme (1947-    )
• Sung Gay Chow (1947-   )
• Patrick Creevy (1947-    )
• Jean Davidson (1947-   )
• Robert Ivy (1947-    )
• Robert McElvaine (1947-    )
• Nagueyalti Warren (1947-   )
• Benjamin Williams (1947-   )
• Joseph Bosco (1948-    )
• Edward Cohen (1948-    )
• David Davis (1948-    )
• Douglas Gray (1948-   )
• Jane Mullen (1948-    )
• John Milton Wesley (1948-   )
• Charles Reagan Wilson (1948-    )
• Jason Berry (1949-   )
• Rebecca Hood-Adams (1949-   )
• Margaret Porter (1949-   )
• Mary Robison (1949-    )
• Frank Stanford (1949-1978)
• William Burt (1950-   )
• Louisa Dixon (1950-    )
• Brooks Haxton (1950-    )
• T. R. Hummer (1950-    )
• Gary Myers (1950-    )
• Glennray Tutor (1950-   )
• Larry Brown (1951-2004)
• Charlaine Harris (1951-    )
• Lisa Howorth (1951-    )
• Angela Jackson (1951-    )
• Richard Lyons (1951-    )
• Neil McGaughey (1951-    )
• Angela Ball (1952-    )
• Nevada Barr (1952-    )
• Franz Baskett (1952-    )
• Beth Henley (1952-    )
• Samuel Prestridge (1952-   )
• Susan Prospere (1952-    )
• Stuart Stevens (1952-    )
• Carolyn Haines (1953-    )
• Joan Johnson (1953-   )
• Margaree King Mitchell (1953-    )
• Danny Collum (1954-   )
• Jim Fraiser (1954-   )
• Jes Simmons (1954-   )
• Sandra Napier-Dyess (1954-   )
• Theodore Bozeman (1955-   )
• John Grisham (1955-    )
• Karen Mitchell (1955-    )
• Cynthia Shearer (1955-    )
• Aleda Shirley (1955-    )
• Danny Von Kanel (1955- )
• Steve Yarbrough (1956-    )
• James Hughes (1957-   )
• Aurolyn Charise Jacobs (1957-   )
• Kevin Sessums (1957-    )
• Rick Bass (1958-    )
• Marty Stuart (1958-     )
• David Galef (1959-    )
• Jean-Marc Sens (1959-    )
• Charles Braxton (1961-    )
• Phillip Thompson (1962-    )
• Donna Tartt (1963-    )

Writers Not Yet Classified

• Carl Burnham
• Wylene Dunbar
• Winifred Farrar
• Rabiul Hasan
• Sylvia Higginbotham
• Randall Kenan
• Greg Iles
• Michael Johnston
• J. Gregory Keyes
• Perrin Holmes Lowery
• Birthalene Miller
• John O'Neal
• Roosevelt Richards
• Carolyn Thornton
• Brad Watson
• Oprah Winfrey
• Zig Ziglar