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The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction. Representative authors include playwright Paul Green, short-story writer O. Henry, and novelist Thomas Wolfe. [1]
A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749. [2]
"The first book published by a black in the South was The Hope of Liberty (1829), which contained poems decrying the slaves' condition, by George Moses Horton of North Carolina." [3] Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [4]
The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh, [5] and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte. [6] The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985, [7] and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005. [8]
The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees: [9] [10]
In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate. [11]
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The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction. Representative authors include playwright Paul Green, short-story writer O. Henry, and novelist Thomas Wolfe. [1]
A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749. [2]
"The first book published by a black in the South was The Hope of Liberty (1829), which contained poems decrying the slaves' condition, by George Moses Horton of North Carolina." [3] Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [4]
The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh, [5] and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte. [6] The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985, [7] and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005. [8]
The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees: [9] [10]
In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate. [11]
Connecting the lives and creative work of authors to real (and imaginary) geographic locations