Solid Evidence  Ellen Gilchrist named one of her main characters and her book Rhoda for the owner of Maple Street Book Shop, Rhoda K. Faust.    Miller Williams, who was chosen to read a poem at Bill Clinton's second inauguration, founded The New Orleans Review at Loyola University.    Berthe Amoss, author of many children's books including It's Not Your Birthday and Tom in the Middle, was born and lives in New Orleans. Rhoda Faust, Ellen Gilchrist

Richard Ford     Native Brenda Marie Osbey won the American Book Award for her collection of poetry All Saints.         "Maple Street Book Shop . . . has served for almost thirty years as the vital literary center of modern New Orleans. One day, perhaps some enterprising graduate student will find its history worthy of a dissertation." – Earl N. Harbert, Tulane University professor in the sixties (excerpted from a review of Louisiana Women Writers by Dorothy H. Brown and Barbara C. Ewell in "Studies in American Fiction" Northeastern University, Spring 1994)

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