There’s a surprising lack of literature set in Alabama. The University where I work has graduated some first rate or at least highly successful authors (Harper Lee, E.O. Wilson and Lonnie Colman among others) but I don’t know of any famous works set here.
When I worked in Milledgeville, Georgia it was interesting- it was a town of 20,000 people that most people (many people in Georgia, in fact) have never heard of, but it was the setting of most of the tales of Flannery O’Connor, the novel Paris Trout, and elements of the fiction of Alice Walker and Joel Chandler Harris. They way undercapitalize on their literary distinction.
