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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont

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This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand, dense forests, and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and rich in cultural traditions. Here, writers reveal lives long tied to the land and regularly troubled by storms and tell tales of hardship, hard work, and freedom. Eighteen tours lead readers from Raleigh to the Dismal Swamp, the Outer Banks, and across the Sandhills as they explore the region's connections to over 250 writers of fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, Georgann Eubanks brings to life the state's rich literary heritage as she explores these writers' connection to place and reveals the region's vibrant local culture. Excerpts invite readers into the authors' worlds, and web links offer resources for further exploration. Featured authors include A. R. Ammons, Gerald Barrax, Charles Chesnutt, Clyde Edgerton, Philip Gerard, Kaye Gibbons, Harriet Jacobs, Jill McCorkle, Michael Parker, and Bland Simpson..

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont

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Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than 200 Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price and David Sedaris. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont is an exciting way to revisit the places that you already love and to discover new people and places through the eyes of N.C. writers.

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains

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Organized geographically through a series of 18 half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains directs travelers to the memorable sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. Along the way, read outstanding excerpts evoking the places, customs, colloquialisms and characters that figure prominently in their poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and plays. More than 170 writers are featured in this volume, including Sequoyah, Elizabeth Spencer, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Robert Morgan, William Bartram, Gail Godwin, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Tyler, Lillian Jackson Braun, Nina Simone and Romulus Linney. Author Georgann Eubanks also includes information about libraries, museums, colleges, bookstores and other venues open to the public where writers regularly present their work or are represented in exhibitions, events, performances and festivals.

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