High Point, Centre, Greensboro

From the waters of Polecat Creek, a Quaker stronghold, to the literary stars who taught at Woman’s College, now UNC Greensboro, High Point, Centre and Greensboro produced some literary masters and journalism heavy hitters.

Writers with a connection to this area include: Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Ethel Stephens Arnett, Nancy Bartholomew, Linda Beatrice Brown, Orson Scott Card, Fred Chappell, Quinn Dalton, JonathanWorth Daniels, Burke Davis, Burke Davis III, Angela Davis-Gardner, Ann Deagon, , Candace Flynt, Marianne Gingher, Jennifer Grotz, O. Henry, Judith Hill, Randall Jarrell, Susan S. Kelly, Tom Kirby-Smith, Charles Kuralt, Burgess Leonard, Sarah Lindsay, Margaret Maron, Michael McFee, James McGirt, Kimberly Morton-Cuthrell, Edward R. Murrow, Valerie Nieman, Craig Nova, Michael Parker, David Roderick, Brenda Schleunes, Allison Seay, Elizabeth Sewell, Mark Smith- Soto, William Swaim, Alan Tate, Peter Taylor, Albion Tourgée, Robert Watson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Amy Jo Wood, Kathryn Worth, Lynn York and Lee Zacharias.

North Carolina Arts Council Literary Fellows: Quinn Dalton, Greensboro (fiction writer, 2004); Angela Davis-Gardner, Raleigh (fiction writer, 1982 and 2004); Stuart Dischell, Greensboro (poet, 2002); Marianne Gingher, Greensboro (fiction writer, 1985, 1986 and 1991); Michael McFee, Durham (poet, 1986); Michael Parker, Greensboro (fiction writer, 2004); Carole Boston Weatherford, High Point (fiction writer and poet, 1996 and 2002); and Lee Zacharias, Greensboro (fiction and non-fiction writer, 1986 and 2005).