Synopses & Reviews
From the rolling hills of Asheville through the tobacco-laden Piedmont and the boom-town banking center of Charlotte, to the always elegant and occasionally deadly shores of Cape Hatteras, no state is more associated with a renaissance in Southern literature than North Carolina. From among hundreds of writers whose works could fill volumes, LITERARY NORTH CAROLINA affords us the best the state has to offer, including: John White`s search for the Lost Colony; William Bartram`s cheerful recounting of smoking tobacco from a pipe adorned with feathers and strips of wampum; Daniel Defoe`s depiction of the severing of Blackbeard`s head; Orville Wright`s diary entry of man`s first flight attempt at Hags Head; Langston Hughes` reading poetry and breaking the color barrier in 1930s Chapel Hill; F. Scott Fitzgerald`s sojourns at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville; Carson McCullers `golden eye` account of life on an army base; the inspiration behind Thomas Wolfe`s Look Homeward Angel; recollections of Armistead Maupin`s college years; and so much more.
Contributors include: Maya Angelou, James Applewhite, William Bartram, Doris Betts,
Katherine Stripling Byer, Fred Chappell, Charles Chesnutt, John Coltrane, Pat Conroy, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Tony Earley, John Ehle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Buckminster Fuller, Kaye Gibbons, Gail Godwin, Paul Green, O. Henry, George Moses Horton, Langston Hughes, Harriet Jacobs, Randall Jarrell, Randall Kenan, Carolyn Kizer, John Lawson, Tim McLaurin, Armistead Maupin, Carson McCullers, Joseph Mitchell, James Mooney, Robert Morgan, Walker Percy, Reynolds Price, Sam Ragan, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Carl Sandburg, Lee Smith, Zebulon Vance, George Vanderbilt, John White, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Wolfe, and Orville Wright.