Authors who have lived a significant portion of their lives in Boone or Callaway County, Missouri.
- Albright, Letha
- Allen, Larry W.
- Altgilbers, T. E.
- Anderson, Alice Padova
- Anderson, Glenn
- Archer, Stephen M.
- Arthaud, John Bradley
- Atherton, Lewis Eldon
- Baker, Sherwood
- Bargen, Walter
- Barker, Keith
- Basye, C. Ben
- Beck, Nancy
- Bellamann, Henry
- Bellamann, Katherine
- Beyer, Doug
- Blakely, Mary Kay
- Blase, Melvin
- Breimyer, Harold F.
- Bretz, J. Harlan
- Brownlee, Richard
- Bruzzese, Anita
- Bullion, John L.
- Burch, Milbre
- Burhans, Dirk
- Bumgarner, Barri
- Burnes, Brian
- Bush, Connie Adams
- Butler, Elizabeth
- Butler, Robert W.
- Canaday, Leroy
- Canoy, Nestor R.
- Carr, Jean Costen
- Carter, Stephen(son)
- Carver, Carl
- Carver, Heather M.
- Chan, Chris
- Chandrasekhar, Holalkere R.
- Chapman, Carl Haley
- Chase, Luke A.
- Claassen, William
- Cochran, David
- Collins, Robert A.
- Concannon, Dr. Matt
- Cope, Ray
- Crighton, John
- Crownover, Mary H.
- Crawford, Judy
- Cunningham, Noble E.
- Curtis, James M.
- Dahlberg, Maurine F
- Dalton, Warren R.
- Daniels, Angie
- DiBenedetto, Michael
- Dix, Jay
- Dodson, Cathlynn Richard
- Dufur, Brett
- DuNard, Dorothy
- Easley, kd
- Edens, David
- Ellis, Elmer
- Favazza, Armando
- Flader, Susan
- Foley, John Miles
- Folzenlogen, Robert
- Francis, Lee
- Garden, Claire
- Gardner, Peter M.
- Gentry, North Todd
- Gerard, Sue
- Gilbert, Joan
- Gill, Libby
- Goodman, Robert M.
- Gottschalk, Phil
- Grigsby, Mary
- Hall, John G.
- Handy, Doris J.
- Hanson, Sharon Kinney
- Harper, Cord
- Harris, Robert J.
- Hatzidakis, Emmanuel
- Hauser, Heinrich
- Havig, Alan R.
- Hawkins, Notley
- Heat-Moon, William Least
- Heidlage, Walter F.
- Heller, Elsie Dabbs
- Hessler, Peter
- Hickman, Daisy Ann
- Hill, Rob
- Holland, Antonio F.
- Holtz, William
- Howard, Thom
- Hubbell, Sue
- Hudson-Weems, Clenora
- Hudspeth, T. Brian
- Hughes, LaVerne
- Humphrey, Loren
- Hurtgen, Ryan
- Ignoffo, Flori
- Israelsen, Craig L.
- Jacobs, Elijah L.
- James, David A.
- Jayne, Mitchell F.
- Jesse, Richard Henry
- Jones, Charles T.
- Jones, Bartlett C.
- Jones, Robert Charles
- Jorgenson, Lloyd P.
- Kennedy, George
- Kight, Tom
- Kimpton, Robert S.
- King, Sharon
- King, Wilma
- Kissler, Raymond
- Kochtanek, Thomas R.
- Korner, Barbara Oliver
- Krause, Florence Phyfer.
- Krause, William J.
- Krause, Winifred A.
- Kremer, Gary R.
- Kucera, Clair L.
- Kuckelman, Bee Neeley
- Lael, Richard L.
- Lawless, Elaine J.
- Lago, Mary M.
- LeSeur, Greta
- Leuthold, David A.
- Lewis, Trudy
- MacColl, Li
- Mace, Ken C.
- Marshall, Howard W.
- Marshall, Howard W.
- Massy, Rev. Freddie A.
- Mayer, David R.
- McAfee, Thomas
- McBride, Jack
- McDavid, Robert
- McKinney, Fred
- McMahon, Lynne
- McMillen, Margot Ford
- Merrill, John C.
- Mertzlufft, Nancy
- Midkiff, Ken
- Miller, E. S.
- Miller, John E.
- Miller, Julie
- Miller, Kerby A.
- Mills, William
- Moen, Daryl
- Morgan, Carol
- Morgan, Speer
- Mott, Frank Luther
- Mulford, Carolyn
- Nagel, Paul C.
- Neihardt, John G.
- Nolen, Rose M.
- O'Dell, Charles
- Overby, Osmund
- Page, Gloria
- Parke, Catherine Neal
- Patterson, Carole
- Pearson, Tim
- Peden, Margaret Sayers
- Peden, William Harwood
- Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki
- Pinkerton, James R.
- Pledge, Deanna S.
- Powers, Neal
- Quirk, Tom
- Reid, Loren Dudley
- Robb, Elle
- Rodabaugh, Don
- Rottmann, Betty Cook
- Rupp, Don
- Salter, Cathy
- Santos, Sherod
- Sapp, Jo
- Schmidtlein, Eugene F.
- Schroeder, Adolf E.
- Schroeder, Rebecca B.
- Schroeder, Walter A.
- Schwartz, Richard B.
- Shaw, Janet Beeler
- Shaw, William J.
- Shelton, George
- Shoemaker, Floyd C.
- Silananda, U.
- Skinner, Larry
- Speckman, Mark
- Stack, Frank
- Stephens, Frank Fletcher
- Stephenson, Carter
- Stephenson, Hugh
- Stewart, Norm
- Storvick, Truman S.
- Strickland, Arvarh E.
- Suppes, Galen J.
- Swan, Gladys
- Swick, Marly
- Switzler, William F.
- Taft, William H.
- Taylor-Dex, Patricia
- Timberlake, Charles E.
- Trowbridge, Leigh M.
- Unklesbay, A. G.
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Viets, Dan
- Waal, Carla
- Wade, Sawyer
- Warman-Stallings, Kelly
- Wax, Jordon
- Weinberg, Steven
- Wheeler, John Fenton
- Whitacre, Rosemary Young
- White, Steve
- Whitney, Polly
- Williams, Walter
- Windmiller, Elizabeth Douglass
- Winston, Charles E.
- Wise, Steven W.
- Wood, W. Raymond
- Wright, Scott O.
- Young, Virginia
- Zemke, Deborah
- Zu-Bolton, Ahmos II