The best in southern literature about Christmas 28 fiction and nonfiction holiday classics spanning 150 years, from the heartwarming to the hard-edged from acclaimed writers including: Rick Bragg, Truman Capote, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Alice Childress, James Dickey, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ernest J. Gaines, Alex Haley, O. Henry, Langston Hughes, Terry Kay, Harper Lee, Robert E. Lee, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ogden Nash, Colin Wilcox Paxton, Julia Peterkin, Katherine Anne Porter, Dori Sanders, Celestine Sibley, Lee Smith, Lillian Smith, Mark Twain, Margaret Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Joan Williams, Shay Youngblood.