North Carolina literature
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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
A 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
The 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
The "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
In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate.[11]
