• Julia Mood Peterkin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for Scarlet Sister Mary
• Ellen Bryant Voigt, award winning author of six collections of poetry including Kyrie 
• Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, NYT best-selling novelist and author of The Bees, and Blood and Roses
• Grace Beacher Freeman, former Poet Laureate of South Carolina

Other Converse authors include:

Linda Powers Bilanchone
Carol Blesser
Nella Brady
Sara Gossett Crigler
Sadie Davis
Elissa DesPortes
Elizabeth McCarty Edwards
Sally Edwards
Mary Dogden Few
Becky Gould Gibson
Aly Goodwin
Effie Williams Leland
Alice Lide
Clara Childs Mackenzie
Elizabeth Sloan Martin
Floride Milner Martin
Elizabeth McKoy
Frances Mims
Florence Glass Palmer
Emily Post Pitts
Eunice Sullivan Pracht
Kay Reeves
Jessie Pearl Rice
Katherine Ball Ripley
Martha Rivers
Betty Schmitz
Katherine Simmons (Drayton Mayrant)
Hannah Stewart-Gambino
Barbara Stone
Cantey Venable Sutton
Robbie Louse Taylor
Effie Leland Wilder
Katherine Wilkerson
Kathryn Worth