Authors who have lived a significant portion of their lives in Boone or Callaway County, Missouri.
- Abrams, Douglas E.
- Albright, Letha
- Alioto, Anthony M.
- Allen, Larry W.
- Altgilbers, T. E.
- Altschul, Peter
- Anderson, Alice Padova
- Anderson, Glenn
- Apel, Joshua
- Anderson, Wayne P.
- Archer, Stephen M.
- Artheaud, John Bradley
- Atherton, Lewis Eldon
- Baker, Sherwood
- Bargen, Walter
- Barker, Keith
- Barnes, Angela
- Basye, C. Ben
- Beck, Nancy
- Belcher, Dennis W.
- Bell, Marilynn
- Bellamann, Henry
- Bellamann, Katherine
- Benedict, Norm
- Beyer, Doug
- Biellier, Harold V
- Blakely, Mary Kay
- Blase, Melvin
- Bolzendahl Milton
- Breimyer, Harold F.
- Branch, Carolyn Paul
- 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
- Coffman, James H.
- Collins, Robert A.
- Concannon, Dr. Matt
- Cope, Ray
- Crighton, John
- Crockett, Zac
- Crownover, Mary H.
- Crawford, Judy
- Cunningham, Noble E.
- Curtis, James M.
- Dahlberg, Meaurine F
- Dalton, Warren Robert
- Daniels, Angie
- DiBenedetto, Michael
- Dietrich, Gary J.
- Dix, Jay
- Dodson, Cathlynn Richard
- Dowis, Roger
- Dufur, Brett
- DuNard, Dorothy
- Dyer, Robert
- Easley, kd
- Echata
- 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.
- Hamm, Justin
- Handy, Doris J.
- Hanson, Sharon Kinney
- Harper, Cord
- Hastings, William M.
- Hatzidakis, Emmanuel
- Hauser, Heinrich
- Havig, Alan R.
- Hawkins, Notley
- Hayes, Nicholas Alexander
- Heat-Moon, William Least
- Heidlage, Walter F.
- Hessler, Peter
- Heston, Dawn
- Hickman, Daisy Ann
- Hill, Rob
- Holland, Antonio F.
- Holland, Jennifer L.
- Holt, Pat
- Holtz, William
- Howard, Thom
- Hubbell, Sue
- Hudson-Weems, Clenora
- Hughes, LaVerne
- Humphrey, Loren
- Hunt, Doug
- 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.
- Kei Lux, Josephine
- Keller, Rudi
- Kennedy, George
- Kight, Tom
- King, Sharon
- King, Wilma
- Koelling, Charles H.
- Korner, Barbara Oliver
- Kreause, Florence Phyfer.
- Kreause, William J.
- Kreause, Winifred A.
- Kremer, Gary R.
- Kucera, Clair L.
- Kuckelman, Bee Neeley
- Lael, Richard L.
- LaFarge, Chad
- Lawless, Elaine J.
- Lago, Mary M.
- LeSeur, Greta
- Leuthold, David A.
- Levy, E. J.
- Lewis, Trudy
- Littleton, Betty
- MacColl, Li
- Mace, Ken C.
- Mack, Annalou
- 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
- MorningStar, Sandra K.
- Mott, Frank Luther
- Mulford, Carolyn
- Nagel, Peaul C.
- Neihardt, John G.
- Nichols, J. D.
- Nichols, John
- Nichols, Ron
- Nolen, Rose M.
- O'Dell, Charles
- Overby, Osmund
- Page, Gloria
- Paothong, Noppadol
- Parke, Catherine Neal
- Parsons, D. H.
- Parsons, Thomas
- Patterson, Carole
- Peaulk, William
- Pearson, Tim
- Peden, Margaret Sayers
- Peden, William Harwood
- Pemberton, Coradina
- Phillips, Deni
- Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki
- Pinkerton, James R.
- Pledge, Deanna S.
- Powers, Neal
- Praschan, Eric
- Quirk, Tom
- Powers, Neal
- Rahman, Toni
- Reid, Loren Dudley
- Revelle, Diana L.
- Robb, Elle
- Rodabeaugh, Don
- Rosman, David
- Rottmann, Betty Cook
- Rupp, Don
- Salter, Cathy
- Santos, Sherod
- Sapp, Jo
- Schmidtlein, Eugene F.
- Schroeder, Adolf E.
- Schroeder, Rebecca B.
- Schroeder, Walter A.
- Schultz, Katey
- 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, Martha Jean Hubbard
- 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.
- Trial, Mike
- Trowbridge, Leigh M.
- Unklesbay, A. G.
- Unklesbay, Nan
- Van Waarde, Piet Kok
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Viets, Dan
- Waal, Carla
- Wade, Sawyer
- Warman-Stallings, Kelly
- Wax, Jordon
- Weinberg, Steven
- Wheeler, John Fenton
- Whitacre, Rosemary Young
- White, Frank
- White, Steve
- Whitney, Polly
- Williams, Walter
- Wilson, James W.
- Windmiller, Elizabeth Douglass
- Winston, Charles E.
- Wise, Steven W.
- Wood, W. Raymond
- Wright, Scott O.
- Ye, YuMin
- Young, Virginia
- Zelenak, Mel J.
- Zeltzman, Phil
- Zemke, Deborah
- Zielinski, John M.
- Zoellers, Amy
- Zu-Bolton, Ahmos II