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Inglis Fletcher is one of North Carolina's best-known novelists. Her ten historical novels deal with the Albemarle region during Colonial times. On April 14, 1961, Inglis Fletcher Day was celebrated in Edenton.
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16399
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Time Was, a novel by John Foster West, a writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University, is full of folklore and folk language on almost every page. The novel exposes various folk remedies and superstitions, folk songs and games, folk imagery, and folk speech and poetry.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Mar 1971,
p40-46
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16839
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In North Carolina, 20th-century writers began to explore popular genres inclding murder mysteries and science fiction. Murder mystery were initially popular in the western portion of the state, but quickly spread when authors such as James Hay, Jr., Dorothy Ogburn, and Tom Wicker began writing them. Science fiction and its sub-genre fantasy also became, and the state's greatest contributor to this literary area was Manly Wade Wellman who drew inspiration from ballads, folklore, and place names of western North Carolina.
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20675
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Allan Gurganus, Hillsborough native and novelist, recently finished his latest work Local Souls. His fans have waited over a decade for a new novel, the last being Plays Well With Others published in 1997. The author interviews Gurganus who discusses recent state politics, his time in the Navy, and his most recent work which is a collection of three novellas.
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Monica Byrne is a Durham native and aspiring novelist and playwright. Her first novel The Girl in the Road was signed by Crown Publishing. Following this success, her play What Every Girl Should Know will premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival.
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23312
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Monique Truong details how growing up in North Carolina as a Vietnamese war refugee shaped her identity as an author. This interview took place after the release of her novel, 'Bitter in the Mouth.'
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 24, 2015,
p38-64, il, por
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27244
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Adam O’Fallon Price is the former bassist for The Mayflies USA, a power pop band in Chapel Hill that earned national notices in the late nineties. Now Price debuts as a novelist, drawing on his band experience with some authorial sleight of hand. The Grand Tour is a book about a washed-up fiction writer who gets a second wind from a Vietnam War memoir and a fan he meets on his book tour.
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28859
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John Ehle is identified with the start of the North Carolina School of Arts, and recently published his latest novel, Last One Home. Ehle discusses the future of North Carolina’s arts and its role in society.
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28874
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80 years ago, author Carson McCullers began working in Charlotte on her best-selling novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. McCullers setting in her novel is similar to the setting of Charlotte today and many of the same issues she wrote about then, are still relevant now. McCullers struggled with her sexual identity and fitting in and the author of the article wonders if much would have changed for McCullers if she were alive and trying to write the same novel today. The history of the novel, the author, and the social issues of the periods are discussed.
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35907
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Spotlighted was a famous NC author in the running for a commemorative stamp and his most famous work, Look Homeward, Angel. Or at least in writing—play and screenplay—was the novel still renowned. As the author revealed, the best known work produced by this native son has experienced a sales decline since WWII. The best evidence for Wolfe readership’s decrease to Owen, though, was in the dearth of college students familiar with Wolfe works.
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The setting in Shelia Turnage’s novels proves that facts from a writer’s life always find their way into his or her fiction. Tupelo’s Landing resembles the town where Turnage lives and any small town in the South. Evidence includes a list of lines quoted from her Dale and Mo mystery series.
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The first two chapters of Willa of the Wood, by Robert Beatty. are printed here in preparation for its nationwide release. The book follows a magical orphan girl, Willa, living in the Great Smoky Mountains around 1900.
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