North Carolina Literary Trails
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Cathy Smith Bowers, Poet Laureate of North Carolina reads Language: A Sentimental Education

 


Tryon, William Gillette and Sherlock Holmes

Old Fort, Chimney Rock, Lake Lure, Tryon

Writers with a connection to this area: Margaret Culkin Banning, Freddy Bradburn, Lilian Jackson Braun, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Wilma Dykeman, Tony Earley, John Ehle, Payne Erskine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Gillette, Ernest Hemingway, Sidney Lanier, William G. Lord, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Robert Morgan, Margaret Morley, Peggy Payne, Donald Culross Peattie, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Nina Simone, Bob Terrell, Jules Verne and Phyllis A. Whitney.

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North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The North Carolina Arts Council is a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary; Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor