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North Carolina Literature
The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction. Representative authors include playwright Paul Green, short-story writer O. Henry, and novelist Thomas Wolfe. History * See Scottish Gaelic literature, Iain mac Mhurchaidh A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749. (Fulltext) "The first book published by a black in the South was ''The Hope of Liberty'' (1829), which contained poems decrying the slaves' condition, by George Moses Horton of North Carolina." Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl''. Organizations The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh, and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte. The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985, and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005. North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame The " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. In the 2020 census, the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its largest city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with a population of 2,595,027 in 2020, is the most-populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 21st-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Cary combined statistical area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state and 32nd-most populous in the United States, with a population of 2,043,867 in 2020, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park. The earliest evidence of human occupation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Boyd House
James Boyd House, also known as Weymouth, is a historic home located at Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Aymar Embury II and built in the 1920s. It is a large, rambling Colonial Revival style brick dwelling. It consists of a five-bay, two-story central block flanked by two-story hyphens and wings. It was built by historical novelist James Boyd after World War I. Since 1979, the building has housed the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1977. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1920 Houses in Moore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Edgerton
Clyde Edgerton (born May 20, 1944) is an American author. He has published a dozen books, most of them novels, two of which have been adapted for film. He is also a professor, teaching creative writing. Biography Edgerton was born in Durham, North Carolina and grew up in the small town of Bethesda, North Carolina. He was the only child of Truma and Ernest Edgerton, who came from families of cotton and tobacco farmers, respectively. In 1962 Edgerton enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, eventually majoring in English. During this time he was a student in the Air Force ROTC program where he learned to fly a small plane. After graduating in 1966, he entered the Air Force and served five years as a fighter pilot in the United States, Korea, Japan, and Thailand. After his time in service, Edgerton got his Master's degree in English and began a job as an English teacher at his old high school. Soon after, he also earned a doctorate. He decided to become a wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Reid
Frances Tiernan (, Fisher; pen name, Christian Reid; July 5, 1846 – March 24, 1920) was an American author who wrote more than 50 novels, most notably '' The Land of the Sky''. Reared as a Roman Catholic, she grew up in the Southern United States. In 1870, she published her first novel, ''Valerie Aylmer''. In the following year, she published in ''Appletons' Journal'' a novel entitled ''Morton House'', a story of Southern life. Even after publishing nearly 50 novels, she considered this her best work. In 1887, she married James M. Tiernan, of Maryland. She accompanied him to Mexico where he had mining interests. There, she collected material for her novel, ''The Land of the Sun.'' She also wrote several short stories set in Mexico, notably ''The Pictures of Las Cruces'', which appeared in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'', and which was translated and published in ''L'Illustration'' of Paris. After her husband's death in 1898, Tiernan made her home in New York City before retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for '' Cold Mountain''. Biography Early life Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, grew up in Andrews and Franklin, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1986. A 1985 published work by Frazier was a trail guide to the Andes and environs for the Sierra Club. Frazier taught English, first at University of Colorado Boulder, then English at North Carolina State University. His wife convinced him to quit in order to work full-time on his novel. His friend and fellow North Carolina novelist, Kaye Gibbons, presented his unfinished novel to her literary agency, which led to the publication of ''Cold Mountain''. Career ''Cold Mountain'' was his first novel, published in 1997 by Atlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. Following the Civil Rights Movement during the 20th century, interest in the works of Chesnutt was revived. Several of his books were published in new editions, and he received formal recognition. A commemorative stamp was printed in 2008. During the early 20th century in Cleveland, Chesnutt established what became a highly successful court reporting business, which provided his main income. He became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writing articles supporting education as well as legal challenges to discriminatory laws. Early life Chesnutt was born in Cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford is an African-American author and critic, now living in North Carolina, United States. She is the winner of the 2022 Coretta Scott King Award for ''Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre.'' She writes children's literature and some historical books, as well as poetry and commentaries. Weatherford is best known for her books ''Juneteenth Jamboree, Freedom in Congo Square,'' and ''You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen.'' Notably, Weatherford has written literary criticisms of racist representations in children's entertainment. Today, she often writes with her son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, who is an illustrator and poet. Biography The music of poetry has fascinated Weatherford and motivated her literary career.Lyons, Kelly Starling (February 20, 2008)"Carole Boston Weatherford"(interview), ''The Brown Bookshelf''. Weatherford began writing in first grade by dictating poems to her mother. Her father taught printing at a local high school and published his da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Sandburg
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including '' Chicago Poems'' (1916), ''Cornhuskers'' (1918), and ''Smoke and Steel'' (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America." Life Carl Sandburg was born in a three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg, Illinois, to Clara Mathilda (née Anderson) and August Sandberg, Sandburg's father's last name was originally "Danielso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke Davis
Burke is an Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman Monarchy of Ireland, Irish surname, deriving from the ancient Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman noble dynasty, the House of Burgh. In Ireland, the descendants of William de Burgh (–1206) had the surname ''de Burgh'' which was Gaelicisation, gaelicised in Irish language, Irish as ''de Búrca'' and over the centuries became ''Búrc'' then Burke and Bourke (surname), Bourke. Notable people with this name include: Surname A * Adam Burke (other), multiple people, including: ** Adam Burke (rower), (1971–2018), Irish ocean rower ** Adam Burke (comedian), American stand-up comedian, writer, and comic artist * Adrian P. Burke (1904–2000), New York judge * Aedanus Burke (1743–1802), Irish-American soldier, judge, and politician * Aggrey Burke (born 1943), British psychiatrist and academic * Alafair Burke (born 1969), mystery novel writer and Court TV commentator * Alan Burke (1922–1992), American conservative tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bland Simpson
Bland Simpson is an American author, professor, and musician from North Carolina. Early life Simpson grew up in the northeastern area of North Carolina in Elizabeth City and spend much of his time around the Albemarle Sound. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the middle of his undergraduate career, Simpson left the university to spend time songwriting in New York, particularly for musical theater. He later returned to UNC-Chapel Hill to finish his degree, and graduated in 1973 with a major in political science. Career Teaching Simpson began teaching creative writing at his alma mater in 1982.Bland Simpson ", University of North Carolina, retrieved 2011-07-11 He is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing at |
Betty Adcock
Elizabeth "Betty" Sharp Adcock (born September 16, 1938) is an American poet and a 2002–2003 Guggenheim Fellow. Author of six poetry collections, she has served as a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in Asheville, North Carolina and in the Writer-in-Residence program at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has also held residencies at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Kalamazoo College, and Duke University, and has twice served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. Life The daughter of a landowner and a schoolteacher, Adcock grew up in San Augustine, Texas, a small farming community. The landscape of the area, a mix of West and Deep South, influenced her work. She moved to North Carolina after her marriage to Donald Adcock, who died in 2011. The two have a daughter, Sylvia. Adcock is primarily self-taught. She has no degrees, though she attended Texas Tech University, Goddard College, and North Carolina Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Kelly Harris
Bernice Kelly Harris (October 8, 1891, d. September 13, 1973) was an American novelist and playwright from North Carolina. She participated in the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, during which she collected biographies of people in the Southern United States. Harris published seven novels between 1939 and 1951, including ''Purslane'' (1939), ''Sweet Beulah Land'' (1943), and ''Janey Jeems'' (1946). Her work often featured characters living in the American South, especially in eastern North Carolina. Early Life and Education Harris was born in Wake County, North Carolina on October 8, 1891, to farmers William Haywood and Rosa Poole Kelly. She was one of six or seven children. Her family attended Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, and she was educated at the Mt. Moriah Academy. Harris also attended Cary High School for one year and graduated from Meredith College in 1913. Career Harris briefly worked as a school principal in Beulaville, North Carolina bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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