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North Carolina literature, the Glossary

The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction.^[1]

91 relations: A. R. Ammons, Allan Gurganus, American Guide Series, American literary regionalism, Anna J. Cooper, Anthony S. Abbott, AOL, Arthur Talmage Abernethy, Bernice Kelly Harris, Betty Adcock, Bland Simpson, Carl Sandburg, Carole Boston Weatherford, Charles Frazier, Charles W. Chesnutt, Charlotte, North Carolina, Christian Reid, Clyde Edgerton, David Walker (abolitionist), DMOZ, Doris Betts, Edenton, North Carolina, Elizabeth Spencer (writer), Emory Elliott, Federal Writers' Project, Frances Gray Patton, Fred Chappell, G. Thomas Tanselle, George Moses Horton, Gerald Barrax, Gerald W. Johnson (writer), Glen Rounds, Guy Owen (novelist), Harriet Jacobs, Helen Bevington, Iain mac Mhurchaidh, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Inglis Fletcher, Jaki Shelton Green, James Applewhite, James Boyd (novelist), James Boyd House, James Ephraim McGirt, Jill McCorkle, John Ehle, John Hope Franklin, John Lawson (explorer), Jonathan W. Daniels, Jonathan Williams (poet), Joseph Mitchell (writer), ... Expand index (41 more) »
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A. R. Ammons

Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University.

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Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work, which includes Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Local Souls, is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina.

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American Guide Series

The American Guide Series includes books and pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era program that was part of the larger Works Progress Administration in the United States.

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American literary regionalism

American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term "local color", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Anna J. Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper (Haywood; August 10, 1858February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, Black feminist leader, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.

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Anthony S. Abbott

Anthony "Tony" S. Abbott was an American college professor and writer.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Arthur Talmage Abernethy

Arthur Talmage Abernethy (October 10, 1872 – May 15, 1956) was a writer, theologian, and poet.

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Bernice Kelly Harris

Bernice Kelly Harris (October 8, 1891 – September 13, 1973) was an American novelist and playwright from North Carolina.

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Betty Adcock

Elizabeth "Betty" Sharp Adcock (born September 16, 1938) is an American poet and a 2002–2003 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Bland Simpson

Bland Simpson is an American author, professor, and musician from North Carolina.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor.

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Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford (born 1956 in Baltimore) is an American author and critic.

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Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an American novelist.

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Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.

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Christian Reid

Frances Tiernan (Fisher; pen name, Christian Reid; July 5, 1846 – March 24, 1920) was an American author who wrote more than 50 novels, most notably The Land of the Sky.

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Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton (born May 20, 1944) is an American author.

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David Walker (abolitionist)

David Walker (September 28, 1796August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist.

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DMOZ

DMOZ (stylized dmoz in its logo; from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links.

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Doris Betts

Doris Betts (June 4, 1932 – April 21, 2012) was a short story writer, novelist, essayist and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Edenton, North Carolina

Edenton is a town in, and the county seat of, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States, on Albemarle Sound.

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Elizabeth Spencer (writer)

Elizabeth Spencer (July 19, 1921 – December 22, 2019) was an American writer.

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Emory Elliott

Emory Bernard Elliott (October 30, 1942 – March 31, 2009) was an American professor of American literature at UC Riverside.

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Federal Writers' Project

The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a federal government project in the United States created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers and to develop a history and overview of the United States, by state, cities and other jurisdictions.

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Frances Gray Patton

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Fred Chappell

Fred Davis Chappell (May 28, 1936 – January 4, 2024) was an author and poet.

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G. Thomas Tanselle

George Thomas Tanselle (born January 29, 1934) is an American textual critic, bibliographer, and book collector, especially known for his work on Herman Melville.

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George Moses Horton

George Moses Horton (c. 1798–after 1867), was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865).

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Gerald Barrax

Gerald William Barrax (June 21, 1933 – December 7, 2019) was an American poet and educator.

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Gerald W. Johnson (writer)

Gerald White Johnson (1890 – March 22, 1980) was a journalist, editor, essayist, historian, biographer, and novelist.

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Glen Rounds

Glen Harold Rounds (April 4, 1906 – September 27, 2002) was an American writer and illustrator.

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Guy Owen (novelist)

Guy Owen (February 24, 1925 – July 25, 1981) was a professor of English who produced many different types of literary works.

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Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".

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Helen Bevington

Helen Smith Bevington (1906 – March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator.

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Iain mac Mhurchaidh

Iain mac Mhurchaidh, alias John MacRae (1725 -), was a Scotland-born bard from Kintail, a member of Clan Macrae, and an early immigrant to the Colony of North Carolina.

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author.

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Inglis Fletcher

Inglis Fletcher (October 20, 1879 – May 30, 1969) was an American writer.

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Jaki Shelton Green

Jaki Shelton Green is an American poet.

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James Applewhite

James Applewhite (born 1935 in Stantonsburg, North Carolina) is an American poet, and a retired Professor Emeritus in creative writing at Duke University.

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James Boyd (novelist)

James Boyd (July 2, 1888 – February 25, 1944) was an American novelist, most famous for his Revolutionary War novel Drums, which was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.

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James Boyd House

James Boyd House, also known as Weymouth, is a historic home located at Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina.

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James Ephraim McGirt

James Ephraim McGirt (1874–1930) was poet, publisher, and businessman in the United States.

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Jill McCorkle

Jill Collins McCorkle (born July 7, 1958) is an American short story writer and novelist.

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John Ehle

John Marsden Ehle, Jr. (December 13, 1925 – March 24, 2018) was an American writer known best for his fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American South.

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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.

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John Lawson (explorer)

John Lawson (27 December 1674 – 16 September 1711) was an English explorer, naturalist and writer.

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Jonathan W. Daniels

Jonathan Worth Daniels (April 26, 1902 – November 6, 1981) was an American writer, editor, and White House Press Secretary.

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Jonathan Williams (poet)

Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929 – March 16, 2008) was an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer.

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Joseph Mitchell (writer)

Joseph Quincy Mitchell (July 27, 1908 – May 24, 1996) was an American writer best known for his works of creative nonfiction he published in The New Yorker.

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Kay Byer

Kathryn Stripling Byer (November 25, 1944 – June 5, 2017), also called Kay Byer, was an American poet and teacher.

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Lawrence C. Wroth

Lawrence Counselman Wroth (January 14, 1884 – December 25, 1970) was an American historian and the author of The Colonial Printer, the definitive book on the American printing trade during the period of 1639 through 1800.

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Lee Smith (born November 1, 1944) is an American fiction writer who often incorporates her background from the American South in her works.

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List of newspapers in North Carolina

There have been newspapers in North Carolina since the North-Carolina Gazette began publication in the Province of North Carolina in 1751.

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Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. (November 19, 1923 – November 16, 2013) was a noted American literary scholar and critic, writing teacher, publisher, and writer.

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Louisiana State University Press

The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University.

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Manly Wade Wellman

Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer.

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Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron (née Brown; August 25, 1938 – February 23, 2021) was an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Moses Roper

Moses Roper (– April 15, 1891) was an African American abolitionist, author and orator.

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New Bern, North Carolina

New Bern (formerly Newbern) is a city in and the county seat of Craven County, North Carolina, United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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North Carolina Arts Council

The North Carolina Arts Council is an organization in the U.S. state of North Carolina that provides grants to artists, musicians and arts organizations.

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North Carolina Poet Laureate

The North Carolina Poet Laureate is the poet laureate for the US state of North Carolina. North Carolina literature and North Carolina Poet Laureate are North Carolina culture.

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O. Henry

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction.

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Olive Tilford Dargan

Olive Tilford Dargan (January 11, 1869 – January 22, 1968) was a writer and a poet.

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Paul Green (playwright)

Paul Eliot Green (March 17, 1894 – May 4, 1981) was an American playwright whose work includes historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century.

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Pauli Murray

Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest.

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Penelope Niven

Penelope Ellen Niven (April 11, 1939 — August 28, 2014) was an American academic and biographer.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County.

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Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist.

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Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan (March 12, 1963 – August 28, 2020) was an American author.

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Reynolds Price

Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

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Robert Morgan (writer)

Robert Morgan (born 1944) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

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Robert Ruark

Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915 in Wilmington, North Carolina – July 1, 1965 in London, England) was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter.

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Sam Ragan

Samuel Talmadge Ragan (December 31, 1915 – May 11, 1996)Representative Eva Clayton of North Carolina.

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Samm-Art Williams

Samuel Arthur Williams (January 20, 1946 – May 13, 2024) was an American playwright and screenwriter, television producer, and an actor on stage, television and film.

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Scottish Gaelic literature

Scottish Gaelic literature refers to literary works composed in the Scottish Gaelic language, which is, like Irish and Manx, a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages.

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Shelby Stephenson

Shelby Stephenson (born June 14, 1938) is an American poet.

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Southern Pines, North Carolina

Southern Pines is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Southern United States literature

Southern United States literature consists of American literature written about the Southern United States or by writers from the region.

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Thad Stem Jr.

Thaddeus Stem Jr. (1916–1980) of Oxford, North Carolina was an American poet, author and newspaper columnist.

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Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American writer.

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Tom Wicker

Thomas Grey Wicker (June 18, 1926 – November 25, 2011) was an American journalist.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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W. J. Cash

Wilbur Joseph "Jack" Cash (May 2, 1900 – July 1, 1941) was an American journalist known for writing The Mind of the South (1941), a controversial and influential interpretation of the character and history of the American South.

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Walter Hines Page

Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat.

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William S. Powell

William Stevens Powell (April 28, 1919 – April 10, 2015) was an American historian, writer, academic, and teacher.

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Wilma Dykeman

Wilma Dykeman Stokely (May 20, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction whose works chronicled the people and land of Appalachia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_literature

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North Carolina culture

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