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40417
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McCorkle’s return to Holden Beach suggested much has changed in the fifty year old island town. In recalling landmarks such as the Surfside Pavilion, a rustic swing bridge, and VanWerry Grocery Store, she proved the town is also the same: in memory.
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Holden Beach (Brunswick County); McCorkle, Jill, 1958-; Authors, North Carolina; Authors, North Carolina--Women; Writers, North Carolina; Writers--North Carolina, Eastern; Long Beach--Civil War--shipwrecks; Hurricane Hazel, 1954; Oak Island; Oak Island--families--Luther Holden ; Holden Beach--families--Luther Holden
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21115
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Author Margaret Maron, early short story writer, has achieved her greatest success as an author of 10 novels including two mystery series: the Sigrid Harald novels and the Deborah Knott series. In this interview with NCLR, Maron discusses her writing career including how it began, where it has gone, where it is going to go, and how it connects to North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p61-68, por
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19493
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Celebrated author Randall Kenan has had many influences on his life and his writing while growing up in North Carolina. From his childhood in Duplin County, to attending college at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the many literary influences in between, Kenan reflects the diversity that comes from North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 15, 2006,
p11-17 , f
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32986
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The author calls to your attention some of the literary geniuses of North Carolina whose works attained national and international recognition. The list include such names as Thomas Wolfe, James Boyd and Thomas Dixon.
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10667
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Talmadge Powell is one of North Carolina's most prolific writers. He has written fifteen books and over 500 stories and novelettes. He has written for television and some of his books have been translated in all the languages of Western Europe.
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6.Tar Heel Authors, Subjects Promoted by New Book Club by Carolina Country Vol. 12 Issue 2, Feb 1980
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31519
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The North Carolina Book Club was recently established by the North Carolina Literacy and Historical Association. The purpose of the club is to promote interest in reading, writing, and publication of books, particularly literary and historical works relating to North Carolina. This article discusses notable authors and founders of the club, and club membership.
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20412
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North Carolina has an abundance of authors, and Lawrence states that he cannot hope to select ten true primates from such a wealth. But he says, \"I have endeavored to make selections which will be illustrative of the best genius of literary Carolina.\" His list begins with Hinton Rowan Helper and ends with Thomas Dixon and Gerald W. Johnson.
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11306
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Kemp lists a number of books by North Carolina writers that were published in 1965 and the awards some of them received.
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10805
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Kemp lists books produced by North Carolina's writers and poets during 1968.
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35991
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His life didn’t include authorship until he was eighty-three. As if to make up for lost writing time, he has published The Kinnakeeter, and while still engaged in Sunday School teaching, he has started his second book, Isle of Paradise (about Hatteras Island). The careers that occupied his life before writing were teacher, fisherman, wholesale merchant, and co-owner of a seaweed business (he and his father were the first to bring this type of business to Hatteras Island).
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14290
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The article reprints portions from a previous publication called \"The North Carolina Speaker.\" It was compiled by Eugene G. Harrell and John B. Neatherly in 1887 and published by Alfred Williams & Company. The work collected short stories and poems about North Carolina and the authors cited in this article are: Henry N. Blount, James A. Delke, Zebulon B. Vance, and Z. W. Whitehead.
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28230
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Durham author Zelda Lockhart discusses her African-American family’s Indian heritage. Her maternal great-grandmother was a Choctaw who married her black great-grandfather. Lockhart discusses the history of African-American and Indian relations and how both groups were involved in the slave trade. Her latest novel brings to life what she learned of her family’s hidden native heritage through fiction.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 13, March 2007,
p33-34
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35851
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A mute peddler the author called “the vanilla man” offered a string of pearls with the purchase of his product. Its true value, she realized, was irrevocably lost with the string of pearls broken.
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The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, located at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, seeks to honor, preserve and promote the state's rich literary legacy. To date, forty-two North Carolina authors have been inducted. Gerald Barrax, Fred Chappell, and Elizabeth Daniels Squire were the 2006 inductees.
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Watkins Wright of Asheville began his writing career in high school. His play \"Put It On the Map\" was published by Walter H. Baker Publishing Company, which has since published ten more. He has published sixty-five short stories, a number of movie scenarios, and four novels. He moved to New York City in 1924 to live within reach of publishing houses and editorial offices.
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