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34641
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This article focuses on interviews conducted with Robert Morgan, a native North Carolina author of historical fiction. He discusses his choice to make the main character a woman, the balance he must create between the character’s point of view and the history of the battle, and his inspirations throughout his writing career.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2014,
p6-17, il, por, f
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6809
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The Lafayette Escadrille was founded by a group of American pilots who volunteered to fly for the French Air Service at the beginning of the First World War. Two of the nine founding members were from North Carolina: James Rogers McConnell, from Carthage, and Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville. Both were killed during the conflict.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 12, 2003,
p57-64, por
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34696
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In the 1930’s, playwright Paul Green attempted to create a play regarding the Lost Colony of Roanoke in North Carolina. The story known by most people does not include the ending, however, and even today, there is debate about what happened to the colonists. Paul Green changed his endings several times, the last of which in 1980’s left on a more hopeful note. This article goes into detail about what prompted each of these changes and how they were interpreted by the audiences.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 27 Issue , 2018,
p52-71, il, por, f
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1089
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James Applewhite, North Carolina poet and Duke University professor, discusses his poetry and the life experiences that inspire his words.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Spring 1993,
p25-41, por
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792
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Noted North Carolina poet A. R. Ammons speaks about the craft and those things that provide poetic subjects.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Summer 1992,
p46-57, por
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1091
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Inglis Fletcher's literary career and her interest in the history and people of North Carolina are chronicled in her papers housed at East Carolina University's J. Y. Joyner Library.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Spring 1993,
p176-179, il, por
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34640
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Native North Carolinian author Wiley Cash is interviewed for this article. Writer of A Land More Kind than Home, Cash discusses the inspiration behind the novel, why he chose to set it in North Carolina, and his approach to addressing issues that he sees in religion, power, and family dynamics.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 22 Issue 1, 2013,
p92-104, il, por, f
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34644
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At the beginning of World War II, Arthur Miller, before he became a world-renowned playwright, recorded interviews with civilians in North Carolina. Outside of Wilmington, he discussed the impacts on the shipping industry, African-American workers and strikes, and wartime attitudes against fascism. The interviews comment on the industry and population boom brought in by the wartime effort, as well as lament the loss of small-town life and cultural changes.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2014,
p48-59, il, por, f
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23316
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Ellis considers Charles Chestnutt's 1905 novel that discussed the failure of Reconstruction in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 24, 2015,
p98-113, il, por
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23315
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Ellis considers Charles Chestnutt's 1905 novel that discussed the failure of Reconstruction in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 24, 2015,
p98-113, il, por
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11.A Cuban in Mayberry by Firmat, Gustavo Perez North Carolina Literary Review Vol. 22 Issue 1, 2013
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34639
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Gustavo Perez Firmat, a “Cuban exile” living in the United States, discusses his parents move from Cuba to the U.S. to wait out the Castro regime. After decades waiting, Gustavo moved to North Carolina, where his two biggest influences were I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show; one shows a fellow Cuban living in America, the other shows small-town North Carolina life.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 22 Issue 1, 2013,
p74-83, il, por, f
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21143
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In this retrospective, author Fred Chappell looks back on movie theaters in Canton, North Carolina where he grew up. Movies were on of the largest diversions for youths during the 1940s and 1950s, and Canton was fortunate enough to have two different movie theaters, The Colonial and The Strand, the two movie houses that helped him grow up.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1993,
p6-13, il
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18609
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Author Charles Frazier reflects on his experiences with the adaptation of his critically acclaimed novel Cold Mountain into a full length feature film. While doing so Frazier explores what the screenwriter owes the novelist and the fundamental differences between the novel and film.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 21, 2012,
p8-11, por, f
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6228
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This is the first of a series of columns that will briefly profile North Carolina writers, as well as those who have written in or about the state. Patterson produces a short sketch of each writer, including place of birth, other occupations, and works published.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Summer 1992,
p152-158, por
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6223
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This ongoing series of columns briefly profiles North Carolina writers as well as those who have written in or about the state. Patterson provides a short sketch of each writer, including birthplace, additional occupations, and works published. Also included is a column on Mebane Holomon Burgwyn, published in the FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER at the time of her death in 1992.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Spring 1993,
p183-190
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