Milton A. Abernathy created and published \"Contempo\" literary magazine in Chapel Hill during the 1930s. Contempo published eight Nobel Prize winners before it ceased publication in 1934.
John Lawson, surveyor of and explorer in North Carolina, had extensive dealings and encounters with the Tuscarora Indians of North Carolina; he eventually died at the hands of the Tuscaroras.
East Carolina University English professor Gay Wilentz provides a brief overview of the known slave narratives of NC, discusses the traditional forms of narratives, and analyzes five major slave narratives.
North Carolina boasts the longest literary heritage in English of any state, a distinguished heritage that begins before the first colonial narratives. Sparrow presents a syllabus of NC works that constitute this heritage.
This is one of a number of articles (pp. 54-99) detailing the output of Chapel Hill writer Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986). Each article offers a tribute to the man and his writing legacy, which includes science fiction, history, biography, and comic books.
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.
North Carolina writer Rose Goode McCullough, who is a remarkable 108 years old, lived in New Bern and wrote about her experiences and the people there.
Buckner surveys written works that deal with slavery and race relations, with a focus on works of NC writers, both black and white, who confronted these issues in their writings.