Sean Dietrich

Sean Dietrich, nicknamed "Sean of the South", is an American writer of books and newspaper columns. His focus is on the Southern United States and its people.

Dietrich was born in Missouri but after his father's suicide, when he was 12, he moved with his family to Walton County, Florida, at age 14. He dropped out of school and worked construction and other jobs, then became a professional musician. After going back to school he discovered writing. He has published ten books (some of them self-published), and has written columns for the Mobile Press Register, Tallahassee Democrat, and Bitter Southerner. He lives in the Florida Panhandle, but has gained a following especially in Alabama (his wife Jamie is a chef from Brewton, Alabama) and identifies with its people.

Since 2014 he writes a blog called "Sean of the South". He writes a blog entry every day (an estimated 125,000 people read his blog) and has written over 1,500 columns,his compilations are published in seven books, with Amazon. Don Noble, professor of American literature and critic who reviewed Whistling Dixie, praised the funny and quirky titles and the uplifting spirit of the 500-word pieces, though he noted that one should read only one a day, "any more gets cloying".