Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993

In 1921, William LeGette Blythe, native of Huntersville, N.C., graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he had been a member of the original Carolina Playmakers and a classmate of Thomas Wolfe. After graduation, Blythe became a reporter at the Charlotte News and later joined the staff of the Charlotte Observer . He authored several Biblical novels, biographies of prominent North Carolinians, and symphonic dramas based on Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C. Blythe won the Mayflower Award for the best nonfiction work by a North Carolinian in 1953 for Miracle in the Hills, his biography of Dr. Mary T. Martin Sloop of the Crossnore School, and in 1961 for Thomas Wolfe and His Family . Blythe died in 1993 in Huntersville.

From the guide to the LeGette Blythe Papers (#4852), 1852-1996, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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