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.
History See Scottish Gaelic literature, Iain mac Mhurchaidh A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749. (Fulltext)
"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." Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Organizations The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh, and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte. The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985, and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005.
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees:
Anthony S. Abbott (2020) A.R. Ammons Allan Gurganus Bernice Kelly Harris Betty Adcock Bland Simpson Burke Davis Carl Sandburg Carole Boston Weatherford Charles Chesnutt Charles Frazier Christian Reid Clyde Edgerton Doris Betts Elizabeth Daniels Squire Elizabeth Spencer Frances Gray Patton Fred Chappell George Moses Horton Gerald Barrax Gerald Johnson Glen Rounds Guy Owen Harriet Jacobs Helen Bevington Inglis Fletcher Jaki Shelton Green James Applewhite James Boyd James W. Clark Jr. James Ephraim McGirt Jill McCorkle John Charles McNeill John Ehle John Hope Franklin John Lawson Jonathan Williams Jonathan Worth Daniels Joseph Mitchell Kathryn Stripling Byer Lee Smith Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Manly Wade Wellman Margaret Maron Marsha White Warren Max Steele Maya Angelou Olive Tilford Dargan Paul Green Pauli Murray Penelope Niven Randall Jarrell Randall Kenan Reynolds Price Richard Walser Robert Morgan Robert Ruark Ronald H. Bayes Sam Ragan Samm-Art Williams Shelby Stephenson Thad Stem, Jr. Thomas Wolfe Tom Wicker Walter Hines Page Wilbur J. Cash William LeGette Blythe William S. Powell William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry Wilma Dykeman
Awards and events In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate.
See also :Category:Writers from North Carolina List of newspapers in North Carolina :Category:North Carolina in fiction :Category:Libraries in North Carolina Southern United States literature American literary regionalism
References
Bibliography
. (Works by North Carolinans or related to the state)
(Includes information about North Carolina literature)
. (Includes examples of work by Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna J. Cooper, George Moses Horton, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Moses Roper, David Walker)
External links
(Directory ceased in 2017) (includes information about North Carolina)