LITERARY LEGENDS OF NEW ORLEANS

The images of a city's devastation whose old-world charm and artistic ambiance beckoned such writers as Faulker, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams, is hard to comprehend. People being airlifted to safety, homes ruined, streets flooded with contaminated water, and people being evacuated from their homes, is the New Orleans that now exists.

Tennessee Williams, who found creative inspiration in New Orleans, said that he came to the city "as a migratory bird going in search of a more congenial climate."

Many other writers have been captivated by New Orleans, including Sherwood Anderson, Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, James Lee Burke. Lillian Hellman spent time in New Orleans, and wrote about a New Orleans family in Little Foxes. And other great literary legends have visited this seductive city, including Truman Capote.

New Orleans is also the birthplace and home of bestselling author Anne Rice.

Let's hope that someday soon, the city will flourish again, beckoning once more the creative spirit that thrived there for so many years.

And let's hope that all of the displaced people who have become homeless and have been forced to put their lives on hold will be able to call New Orleans and Mississippi home again.

For those interested in how they can help Katrina's victims, or donate money, please click on the following link:

Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund