This page lists the call number ranges for materials by or about writers considered to be within the Southern canon and on Southern literature in general, as well as suggestions on how to find and identify more obscure subject headings for Southern writers.
Frederick Douglass E449.D7 . . .
Harriet Ann Jacobs E444.J17
Kate Chopin PS1294.C63
Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain PS1300-1348
Edgar Allan Poe PS2600-2645
William Faulkner PS3511.A86
Zora Neale Hurston PS3515.U789
Carson McCullers PS
Robert Penn Warren PS3545.A748
Eudora Welty PS3545.E6
Tennessee Williams PS3545.I5365
Richard Wright PS3545.R815
Harper Lee PS
Flannery O'Connor PS3565.C57
Walker Percy PS3566.E6912
Subject headings for Southern Literature can be found in the the 2008 edition of the Library of Congress Classification for PR, PS, and PZ, located adjacent to the Library of Congress Subject Headings on the green cabinet on the library's sevenh floor, beneath Shakespeare's portrait. The classification for the entire class P of language and literature can be found here:
http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_p.pdf
Books that are entirely, cover-to-cover, by or about an American southern author may be located by performing either an author or subject search in the library's catalog, using as search terms the author's name (in last-name first order). For Southern authors as a group, some useful subject headings are:
History of American Literature -- South PS261
By state PS266
By city PS267