NC Literary Trails: Eastern

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• Born on a tobacco and cotton farm outside of Whiteville, NC.
• Studied at Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University).
• Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest holds recordings of A. R. Ammons reading his poetry.
• East Carolina University Library holds recordings of Ammons reading his poetry.
• Inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame in Southern Pines, NC.

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• Faculty at NC State University.
• Instructor at NC Central University from 1969-1970.
• Inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame in Southern Pines, NC.
• Received the North Carolina Award for Literature, administered by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
• Former students and colleagues from NC State remember Barrax.
• Read digital copies of Barrax's poems from Poets.org and CaesuraMag.org.

Information about her time in North Carolina

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• Rachel Carson Reserve in Carteret County.
• History of the Rachel Carson Reserve.
• Self-Guided tours of the Rachel Carson Reserve.
• More information about the Rachel Carson Reserve.

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• Lived in Fayetteville, NC.
• Taught at what would later become Fayetteville State University.
• Inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame in Southern Pines, NC.
• The Fayetteville State University library, named in his honor, holds related materials such as personal correspondence. 
• Full text digital copies of Chesnutt's books available from UNC's Documenting the American South website.

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• Born in Rocky Mount, NC, which also serves as the inspiration for her book, Ellen Foster.
• Attended both North Carolina State University and UNC Chapel Hill.
• Became NCSU Libraries' first author-in-residence in 1988.
• Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction in 1991 from the Historical Book Club of North Carolina.
• Winner of Chowan University's Mary Frances Hobson Lecture and Prize.
• Recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature, administered by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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• Wilmington, NC is the setting for his book, Cape Fear Rising.
• Taught at UNC-Wilmington and co-founding its Creative Writing Program.
• Read Gerard's collection of pieces from Our State Magazine.
• WHQR article about Gerard's favorite travel spots in North Carolina and his book, The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina.
• Read Gerard's obituary from the Wilmington Star-News.

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• Born in Edenton, NC.
• Inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame in Southern Pines, NC.
• A Harriet Jacobs Tour is offered by the African American Experience of Northeast North Carolina.
• Transcripts of Jacobs' writings are available from PBS online.
• Read more information about Harriet Jacobs and read "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" in its entirety available from UNC's Documenting the American South website.

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• Native of Lumberton, NC.
• Inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame in Southern Pines, NC.
• Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State University.
• The Jill McCorkle Papers, 1970s-2002, are held at Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.
• Faculty mentor for the North Carolina State University MFA Creative Writing Program.

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• His book, The Watery Part of the World, is set in the Outer Banks.
• Retired Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
• Recipient of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction in 1994 for The Geographical Cure.
• Received a fellowship in fiction from North Carolina Arts Council.
• Recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2006, administered by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
• Recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture from the UNC Chapel Hill Department of English in 2020.
• Faculty at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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• Lived in Bladen County and worshiped with local Presbyterians.
• His Bible resides in the Davidson College Rare Book Room, with additional material in the Davidson College Archives.
• Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill acquired biblical and Islamic manuscript created by ibn Said in 2021.
• Autobiography of ibn Said available digitally from UNC Library's Documenting the American South.
• More about ibn Said from UNC Library's Documenting the American South.
• NC Highway Historical Marker established for ibn Said in Fayetteville in 2010.

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• The Dismal Swamp is the inspiration for his memoir, The Great Dismal.
• Recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature, administered by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
• Inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame in Southern Pines, NC.
• Kenan Distinguished Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at UNC interview with Simpson.