Oklahoma is home to a large number of authors and illustrators. The Oklahoma Center for the Book has lots of information about Oklahoma Authors, and be sure to check out the Oklahoma Book Awards. The Oklahoma Department of Libraries provides a list of Oklahoma Authors and their websites. Our friends at the Tulsa City-County Library have an excellent finding guide to Oklahoma authors here.
Listed below are just some of the authors that claim Oklahoma as "home."

Lynn Abbey
Carl Albert
Peggy Perry Anderson
Linda Ashour
Rilla Askew
Darlene Bailey Beard (JF)
Stanley Beesley
William Bernhardt
John Berryman
Jack Bickham
Daniel Boorstin
Phyllis Braunlich
Bob Burke
Deborah Camp
C.J. Cherryh
Deborah Chester
Robert Conley
Connie Cronley
Jay Cronley
Betty Crow
David Dary
Angie Debo
G. Weston Dewalt (born in Bartlesville)
Ralph Ellison
Scott Elsworth
Lisa Campbell Ernst (E) (grew up in Bartlesville)
Grant Foreman
Diane Glancy
Danney Goble
Molly Levite Griffis (JF)
Woody Guthrie
Jean Hager
Joe Haldeman
Caroyln Hart
Joyce Hifler
S.E. Hinton
Linda Hogan
A.B. Hollingsworth

Harold Keith (JF)
R.A. Lafferty
Louis L'Amour
Mercedes Lackey
Billie Letts
Merline Lovelace
Wilma Mankiller
Lewis Meyer
Teresa Miller
Anna Myers (JF)
Andre Norton
Darcy O'Brien
Mel Odom
Pappano, Marilyn
Marcia (M.K.) Preston
Wilson Rawls
Carter Revard
Lynn Riggs
Will Rogers
Gayle Ross (JNF)
William Sanders
Eve Sandstrom
Helen Roney Sattler (JNF) (Bartlesville Author)
Mark Shepherd
Fran Stallings (JNF) (Bartlesville Author)
George Miksch Sutton
 Clifton Taulbert
Ross Thomas
Jim Thompson
Sarah Vowell
Judith Henry Wall
Michael Wallis
K. D. Wentworth