May 14, 2009
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North Carolina has its own rich literary tradition.
Interview with Steven Sherrill
| Steven Sherrill, born in Morresville, North Carolina, is Assistant Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona. … |
Daniel Wallace
| … Wallace is the recipient of several humanities grants and awards including the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award as well as a NorthCarolina Arts Fellowship. … |
Peter Taylor
| … He served for five years. In 1943, while still in the military, before going to England, he married Eleanor Ross, a poet from North Carolina. … |
Thomas Wolfe
| Thomas Wolfe was born in 1900 in Ashville, North Carolina. … |
Steven Sherrill
| Steven Sherrill was born and raised in North Carolina. He … |
Walker Percy
| … Walker Percy studied chemistry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Upon graduation from college he decided to enter medical school. … |
Zora Neale Hurston
| … She joined the faculty of North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham for a while and she wrote for Warner Brothers motion pictures. … |
Shelby Foote
| … Foote attended the University of North Carolina from 1935 to 1937. He was drafted into the army in 1940, and rose to the rank of … |
Daniel Wallace
| … Wallace now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and son. |
Carson McCullers
… They moved to North Carolina, and it was there that she wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, a novel in the Southern Gothic tradition. … .
William Styron
…earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Duke University …
Clyde Edgerton
Edgerton was born May 20, 1944 in Durham, North Carolina, …earned a BA, MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … He lives in North Carolina.
Written by: JC Robertson
