Confessions of a murderer (1829) / William Gilmore Simms -- The dance (1833) / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- A tale of the ragged mountains (1844) / Edgar Allan Poe -- A marriage of persuasion (1857) / Susan Petigru King -- Jean-ah Poquelin (1857) / George Washington Cable -- Felipa (1876) / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- The sheriff's children (1889) / Charles W. Chesnutt -- La belle Zoraïde (1894) / Kate Chopin -- Tony's wife (1899) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The heart of it (late 1890s) / Sarah Barnwell Elliott -- Dare's gift (1917) / Ellen Glasgow -- Drenched in light (1924) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Dry September (1930) / William Faulkner -- Kneel to the rising sun (1935) / Erskine Caldwell -- The last day in the field (1935) / Caroline Gordon -- When the light gets green (1936) / Robert Penn Warren -- Big Boy leaves home (1936) / Richard Wright -- The Pelican's shadow (1940) / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- A tree - A rock - A cloud (1942) / Carson McCullers -- Health card (1944) / Frank Yerby -- The angel in the alcove (1948) / Tennessee Williams -- No place for you, my love (1952) / Eudora Welty -- The new order (1954) / Nancy Hale -- A Christmas memory (1956) / Truman Capote -- Northerners can be so smug (1956) / Alice Childress -- First dark (1959) / Elizabeth Spencer -- On the lake (1961) / Ellen Douglas -- The sky is gray (1963) / Ernest J. Gaines -- Two pilgrims (1963) / Peter Taylor -- Revelation (1964) / Flannery O'Connor -- Neighbors (1966) / Diane Oliver -- Talk to the music (1971) / Arna Bontemps -- The ugliest pilgrim (1973) / Doris Betts -- Everyday use (1973) / Alice Walker.