Writers and poets buried in Louisiana

• P. G. T. Beauregard1818-1893
  Confederate general
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• William Henry Holcombe1825-1893
  US medical doctor and author
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Alfred Mercier1816-1894
  Poet and playwright from United States of America
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Pearl Rivers1843-1896
  American poet, journalist
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• John Bull Smith Dimitry1835-1901
  Creole American author, diplomat and professor.
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Kate Stone1841-1907
  American author
  Silver Cross Cemetery, Tallulah, LA
• Alcée Fortier1856-1914
  American philologist and folklorist
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 3, New Orleans, LA
• Randolph Natili1842-1915
  Greek-Italian creole socialite (born 1842, New Orleans)
  Morgan City Cemetery, Morgan City, LA
• Ruth McEnery Stuart1849-1917
  American writer
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• George Soulé1834-1926
  American educator and writer
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Frederick William Parham1856-1927
  American physician
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Rodolphe Desdunes1849-1928
  American civil rights activist, poet, historian, journalist
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, LA
• Julia K. Wetherill Baker1858-1931
  American poet
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 3, New Orleans, LA
• Grace King1852-1932
  Novelist, biographer, historian
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• George Augustin1866-1935
  Louisiana author, poet and journalist
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Theodore John Dimitry Jr.1879-1945
  American optometrist
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Lyle Saxon1891-1946
  American journalist
  Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, LA
• Dorothy Dix1861-1951
  American newspaper columnist
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Joy Montgomery Higgins1874-1959
  American suffragist, social worker
  Greenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Jean Despujols1886-1965
  French painter
  Greenwood Cemetery, Bossier City, LA
• Rosel George Brown1926-1967
  American writer
  Greenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Herman Hine Brinsmade1876-1968
  US author
  Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery, Lakeshore, LA
• John Kennedy Toole1937-1969
  American novelist
  Greenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Jim Garrison1921-1992
  American district attorney
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Stan Rice1942-2002
  American artist
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Mary Alice Fontenot1910-2003
  American author of children's books
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Crowley, LA
• Benoit Bankert1922-2004
  French-American director and screenwriter
  Greenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Claire Bankert1915-2004
  French-American singer, actress, director and screenwriter
  Greenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Caroline Bankert1917-2005
  French-American singer, actress, director and screenwriter
  Greenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Ève Curie1904-2007
  Writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Gaspar J. Stall1930-2011
  American historian, broadcast journalist, and author (1930-2011); specialized in the history and culture of New Orleans, Louisiana, US
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Kim McGuire1955-2016
  American actress, lawyer and writer
  Garden of Memories Cemetery, Metairie, LA
• Anne Rice1941-2021
  American author
  Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA

Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.