North Carolina literature explained

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.^[1]

"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."^[2] Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.^[3]

Organizations

The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh,^[4] and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte.^[5] The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985,^[6] and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005.^[7]

North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees:^{[8] [9]}

• Anthony S. Abbott (2020)
• A.R. Ammons
• Allan Gurganus
• Bernice Kelly Harris
• Betty Adcock
• Bland Simpson
• Burke Davis
• Carl Sandburg
• Carole Boston Weatherford
• Charles Chesnutt
• Charles Frazier
• Christian Reid
• Clyde Edgerton
• Doris Betts
• Elizabeth Daniels Squire
• Elizabeth Spencer
• Frances Gray Patton
• Fred Chappell
• George Moses Horton
• Gerald Barrax
• Gerald Johnson
• Glen Rounds
• Guy Owen
• Harriet Jacobs
• Helen Bevington
• Inglis Fletcher
• Jaki Shelton Green
• James Applewhite
• James Boyd
• James W. Clark Jr.
• James Ephraim McGirt
• Jill McCorkle
• John Charles McNeill
• John Ehle
• John Hope Franklin
• John Lawson
• Jonathan Williams
• Jonathan Worth Daniels
• Joseph Mitchell
• Kathryn Stripling Byer
• Lee Smith
• Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
• Manly Wade Wellman
• Margaret Maron
• Marsha White Warren
• Max Steele
• Maya Angelou
• Olive Tilford Dargan
• Paul Green
• Pauli Murray
• Penelope Niven
• Randall Jarrell
• Randall Kenan
• Reynolds Price
• Richard Walser
• Robert Morgan
• Robert Ruark
• Ronald H. Bayes
• Sam Ragan
• Samm-Art Williams
• Shelby Stephenson
• Thad Stem, Jr.
• Thomas Wolfe
• Tom Wicker
• Walter Hines Page
• Wilbur J. Cash
• William LeGette Blythe
• William S. Powell
• William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry
• Wilma Dykeman

Awards and events

In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate.^[10]

See also

• • List of newspapers in North Carolina
    • Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism

Bibliography

• Book: Library of Southern Literature . Lucian Lamar Knight . Martin and Hoyt Company . Atlanta . 1913. Fifty Reading Courses: North Carolina. 16 . 204+. 2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=512 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=512. HathiTrust .
• . (Works by North Carolinans or related to the state)
• Book: Elsie Dershem . Outline of American State Literature . World Company . Lawrence, Kansas . 1921. North Carolina . https://archive.org/stream/outlineofamerica001157mbp#page/n131/mode/2up . Internet Archive.
• Book: . North Carolina: a Guide to the Old North State . . University of North Carolina Press . Chapel Hill. 1939 . The Arts: Literature . 107–111 . https://archive.org/stream/northcarolinagui00fede#page/107/mode/1up.
• Book: . 1971 . Guide to the Study of United States Imprints . registration . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about North Carolina literature)
• Book: Joseph M. Flora . Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan . Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs . . 978-0-8071-2692-9 . 2001 . Literature of North Carolina . 557 .
• Book: William L. Andrews . North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology . 2006 . University of North Carolina Press . 978-0-8078-2994-3. . (Includes examples of work by Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna J. Cooper, George Moses Horton, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Moses Roper, David Walker)
  • Book: Anne Bridges. Russell Clement. Ken Wise. Terra Incognita: an Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934 . University of Tennessee Press . Knoxville, TN . 978-1-62190-014-6 . 2014 . Literature of the Great Smoky Mountains . 223–262 .

External links

• Web site: North Carolina Literary Map . . Connecting the lives and creative work of authors to real (and imaginary) geographic locations .
• Web site: North Carolina: Arts and Entertainment: Literature . . . (Directory ceased in 2017)
• Web site: Literary Landmarks by State: North Carolina . American Library Association . Chicago . United for Libraries . 27 February 2009 .

Notes and References

1. (Fulltext)
2. Book: Charles Reagan Wilson . William Ferris . Encyclopedia of Southern Culture . 0807818232 . University of North Carolina Press . 1989 . . http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/antebellum.html . Antebellum Era .
3. Book: . Columbia History of the American Novel . registration . 1991 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-07360-8 .
4. Web site: History and Mission . North Carolina Literary and Historical Association . North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources . Raleigh . March 11, 2017 .
5. Web site: History . North Carolina Poetry Society . March 11, 2017 .
6. Web site: About Us: History . North Carolina Writers' Network . March 11, 2017 .
7. Web site: Who We Are . Winston-Salem Writers . March 11, 2017 .
8. Web site: About the NCLHOF . North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame . March 11, 2017 .
9. Web site: Inductees . 20 August 2017.
10. Web site: Past Poet Laureates . North Carolina Poet Laureate . . Raleigh . March 11, 2017 .