Northeast Georgia Mountain Travel Association

Writers are interesting people. What they write about is also interesting, from life stories and local history to fictions of the heart, mind and soul.  These are some of the more well known writers and authors from Northeast Georgia.  We welcome the names of authors from Northeast Georgia you know about that are not on our list.

Deborah Smith (Dawsonville) modern romances

Dr. Betty Waters (Dahlonega) "Yarns of Gold" Larry Otwell (Dahlonega) "Panning Georgia's Gold", "Georgia's Hidden Gold", "Gold of White County"

Don Shadburn (Cumming) "On Hallowed Ground"

Terry Kay (Dahlonega) "To Dance with the White Dog" & “In the Valley of Light”

Anne Amerson (Dahlonega) "I Remember Dahlonega", a series of three books

Olive Ann Burns (Commerce) "Cold Sassy Tree"

Byron Herbert Reece (Blairsville) various books of stories and poetry

John Kollock (Sautee) has written a variety of books and is a well-known artist

Carson McCullar "Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and Harold Martin "A Place in the Mountains"

Arlene Gray (currently lives in Blairsville) wrote "An Ordinary Life...Touched by an Extraordinary God"

Elaine Shannon of Gainesville wrote "Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen and the War America Can't Win" and "No Heroes".  She is now a correspondent in the TIME magazine Washington D.C. Bureau.

Ronda Rich is a Gainesville native and author of What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should).  She descends from a long line of Southern women who fought he travails of war and heartbreak of death, destruction, depression and various other adversities.

Josie Segars (Eastanolle) wrote “Growing Up on the Farm”

Dan Segars (Lavonia) wrote a book of poems

Gordon Sawyer (Gainesville)

Zell Miller (Young Harris)

Charles Hill  wrote “Blood Mountain Covenant: A Son’s Revenge” ~ Born in 1937 in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains of North Georgia. Hill is a graduate of the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and has been involved in the world of medicine throughout his life. In 1998, he retired from his position as Director of Pharmacy for Union General Hospital in Georgia and now spends his time working on his hobby, the history of Union County.