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.[1]
History
editA printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749.[2]
"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."[3] Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.[4]
Organizations
editThe North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh,[5] and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte.[6] The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985,[7] and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005.[8]
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
editThe "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees:[9][10]
- 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
editIn 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate.[11]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sally Buckner (Fall 2009), "North Carolina Literature", Tar Heel Junior Historian, Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, North Carolina Museum of History – via NCpedia
- ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
- ^ Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via Documenting the American South.
- ^ Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.
- ^ "History and Mission". North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "History". North Carolina Poetry Society. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "About Us: History". North Carolina Writers' Network. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "Who We Are". Winston-Salem Writers. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "About the NCLHOF". North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ "Inductees". Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Past Poet Laureates". North Carolina Poet Laureate. Raleigh: North Carolina Arts Council. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
Bibliography
edit- Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: North Carolina". Library of Southern Literature. Vol. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 204+. hdl:2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust.
- Library, North Carolina State (1919), "Bibliography of North Carolina", Biennial Report of the State Librarian of North Carolina, pp. 23–80. (Works by North Carolinans or related to the state)
- Elsie Dershem (1921). "North Carolina". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
- Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "The Arts: Literature". North Carolina: a Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 107–111.
- G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about North Carolina literature)
- Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, eds. (2001). "Literature of North Carolina". Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. p. 557. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
- William L. Andrews, ed. (2006). North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 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)
- Sally Buckner (Fall 2009), "North Carolina Literature", Tar Heel Junior Historian, Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, North Carolina Museum of History – via NCpedia
- Anne Bridges; Russell Clement; Ken Wise (2014). "Literature of the Great Smoky Mountains". Terra Incognita: an Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. pp. 223–262. ISBN 978-1-62190-014-6.
External links
edit- "North Carolina Literary Map". University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Connecting the lives and creative work of authors to real (and imaginary) geographic locations
- "North Carolina: Arts and Entertainment: Literature". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
- United for Libraries (27 February 2009). "Literary Landmarks by State: North Carolina". Chicago: American Library Association.
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