Christmas Day
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Letter to His Daughter
Robert E. Lee

Susie's Letter from Santa
Mark Twain

Little Miss Sophie
Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
O. Henry

Plantation Christmas
Julia Peterkin

One Christmas Eve
Langston Hughs

A Christmas Story
Katherine Anne Porter

Christmas Shopping, 1947
James Dickey

Jug of Silver
Truman Capote

Merry Christmas, You-All or Who Forgot Savannah
Ogden Nash

Merry Christmas, Marge
Alice Childress

Christmas to Me
Harper Lee

Going Ahead
Joan Williams

There's a Star in the East on Christmas Morn
Margaret Walker

from Memory of a Large Christmas
Lillian Smith

Christmas Night...and All the Others
Celestine Sibley

I am Dreaming of a White Christmas:
The Natural History of a Vision
Robert Penn Warren

Drawing Names
Bobbie Ann Mason

from One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty

from A Different Kind of Christmas
Alex Haley

Spit in the Governor's Tea
Shay Youngblood

Gift Rap
Terry Kay

from A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines

from Dori Sanders' Country Cooking
Dori Sanders

from Papa's Angels
Colin Wilcox Paxton & Gary Carden

from The Christmas Letters
Lee Smith

from All Over But the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg