Southern Literary Geography by WareD

Though Pat Conroy's _The Lords of Discipline_ is set at the fictional Carolina Military Institute, the location is based on what real school Conroy attended?

This fictional county's name is derived from two Chickasaw words meaning "split land" and its county seat is Jefferson.

John Grisham's autobiographical _A Painted House_ is set in the town of Black Oak in this state. (Hint: It's one of the few of his works not set in Mississippi.)

Thomas Wolfe's _Look Homeward Angel_ is set in Altamont, Catawba, which is a fictionalized version of Asheville, North Carolina. However, the "angel" described in the novel was carved by Wolfe's father and stands in Oakdale Cemetery in what town southeast of Asheville?

Just outside of the answer to question 4 is Flat Rock, NC, home to a National Historic Site dedicated to this poet, more famous for his connection to a northern city he described as "hog butcher to the world; tool maker, stacker of wheat."

Eatonton, Georgia was the childhood home of Alice Walker, whose outlook couldn't help but have been influenced by the way the town celebrated this earlier resident, author of the Br'er Rabbit stories.

In the next county over from Eatonton is Milledgeville, hometown of this author of _Wise Blood_ and _Good Country People_, whose home is preserved at Andalusia farm.

This book is partially set not in Eatonton, but in Eatonville, Florida, where the main character Janie lived with Joe Starks before marrying Tea Cake. She returns to Eatonville after being acquitted of Tea Cake's murder.

This novel, Amy Greene's 2010 debut, is set in the mountains of East Tennessee and centers on the stories of three generations of women in the Odom and Blevins families. It's name comes from the mountain on which it is partly set, named for a plant of the sanguinaria genus.

This novel is set primarily on the fictional Cahulawassee River. The river is likely based on the Chattooga, but much of the movie version was filmed in Tallullah Gorge.

Greg Iles grew up in this Mississippi town, where he has set numerous novels featuring Penn Cage, including _The Quiet Game_, _The Devil's Punchbowl_, and _Turning Angel_.

Although much of it is set further south, Cormac McCarthy's _All the Pretty Horses_ begins when John Grady Cole learns that his grandfather's ranch in this city in west Texas's Concho Valley, home of a namesake state university and Goodfellow Air Force Base.