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Harden, John, 1903-1985

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Born in 1903 in Graham, N.C., the son of Peter Ray and Nettie Cayce Abbott Harden, John William Harden worked for the Burlington Evening Times and the Raleigh News and Observer before entering the University of North Carolina at the age of 20. While at Chapel Hill, he worked under Bob Madry, head of the University News Bureau. On graduation in 1927, Harden joined the Charlotte News as a reporter and columnist, working there until 1937 when he became news editor of the Salisbury Eve...

Dykeman, Wilma

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Dykeman, of North Carolina and Tennessee, wrote several noted Southern regional novels and non-fiction books. From the description of The tall woman : [manuscript], 1962. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833304 ...

Burgwyn, Mebane Holoman, 1914-1992

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Mebane Holoman Burgwyn (1914-1992) was an award-winning author of children's books. She was born in Rich Square, North Carolina; graduated from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1935 with a bachelor's degree in primary education; and secured a master's degree in guidance and counseling from East Carolina University in 1961. Burgwyn lived with her family on a farm near Jackson, North Carolina, where she worked as Director o...

Carroll, Latrobe

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Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986

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Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was an author best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains. He was born in Angola, where his father was a physician at a British medical outpost. He later moved to the United States and was educated at Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas and Columbia Univeristy. Wellman served as lieutenant in World War II, after which he moved to Pine Bluff, N.C. He relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1951 and rece...

Hanes, Frank Borden

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Pierce, Ovid Williams

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Writer from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1929-1984. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32878879 Ovid Williams Pierce (1910-1987), a North Carolina author and faculty member at East Carolina College. From the description of Ovid Williams Pierce papers, 1876-1988 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 253644368 ...

Creech, James Rufus

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Carolinas Press Photographers' Association

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Walser, Richard, 1908-1988

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Richard Gaither Walser was born in Lexington, N.C., in 1908. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1933. After returning from service with the United States Naval Reserve, he taught briefly at the University of North Carolina before joining the English faculty at North Carolina State University in 1946. Walser wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them collections of works relating to various aspects of North Carolina life and literature. He also explored the work of s...

Stick, David, 1919-2009

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Ross, Fred E.

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Morrah, Dave

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Hoyle, Bernadette

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Journalist and professional photographer, of North Carolina; b. Bernadette Woodlief; married Macy Hoyle. From the description of Papers, 1945-1983. (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 70955893 ...

Polk, William Tannahill, 1896-1955

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North Carolina author; member of the editorial staff, Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.). From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862409 ...

Wicker, Tom

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Thomas Grey Wicker (1926- ), journalist and author, worked for the "Winston-Salem Journal"; the "Nashville Tennesseean"; and served as staff writer, chief of the Washington bureau, and associate editor for the "New York Times." He wrote numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including several presidential biographies. From the description of Tom Wicker papers, 1917-1998 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 48756913 Thomas Grey Wicker was born in Hamlet, N.C., o...

Spearman, Walter

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Walter Smith Spearman (1908-1987) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1937-1978, wrote plays and short stories, wrote for numerous newspapers, and was an amatuer actor for over forty years. From the description of Walter Spearman papers, 1900-1986 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26180460 Walter Smith Spearman was born in Newberry, S.C., 9 January 1908. He attended school in Silverstreet, S.C., and in Charlotte, N.C., at Centra...

Davis, Burke, 1913-2006

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Burke Davis (1913-2006) was a journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer from Durham, N.C. From the guide to the Burke Davis Papers, 1920-1987, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Burke Davis was a journalist, novelist, historian, and biographer from Durham, N.C. From the description of Burke Davis papers, 1920-19887. WorldCat record id: 34641226 ...

North Carolina Writers Conference

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Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981

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Journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan Daniels : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481338 From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan Worth Daniels : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451557 Author, journalist, and government official Jonathan Daniels was a college classmate of Thomas Wolfe at the University of North Carolina. ...

Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974

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Charles Phillips Russell was a journalist, biographer, and member of the faculty of the English Department, 1931-1937, and the School of Journalism, 1937-1954, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the description of Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25300732 5 August 1884 Born, Rockingham County, N.C., oldest child of Moses Harris and Lucy (Ph...

Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Paul Eliot Green(1894-1981) was a Southern playwright, poet, and novelist. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Green lived in the state all of his life and tried to capture in his writings the culture and heritage of the American South, concentrating on the experiences of tenant farmers, mill workers, Native Americans and African Americans. Green studied at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under folk dramatist Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers. After an interruption of his ...

Davis, Lambert, 1905-

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Slaughter, Frank G. (Frank Gill), 1908-2001

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Frank G. Slaughter was born Frank Gill Slaughter in the Washington, D.C. area in 1908. As a young child Slaughter moved with his family to a rural area near Oxford, North Carolina where his father worked as a farmer and mail carrier. After graduation, attended Duke University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating, Slaughter went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 1930. He then did his surgical training at Jefferson Hospital in Roanoke, Virgi...

North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare

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Green, Charlotte Hilton

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Byrd, Sam, 1908-1955

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Byrd was an author, actor, and producer, of Mt. Olive, N.C. From the description of Sam Byrd papers, 1904-1972. WorldCat record id: 25290691 ...

Street, James H. (James Howell), 1903-1954

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James Street, southern writer and journalist, began his career as a reporter in Laurel, Mississippi at the age of 14. During the intervening years before his first novel was published he worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press in virtually every major city in the South, including Atlanta. Street, who wrote several historical novels, is also well-known as a prolific short story writer. He was a regular contributor to Colliers and Cosmopolitan for many years, as well as several other ma...

Stem, Thad, Jr., 1916-1980

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Thad Stem Jr. (1916-1980) of Oxford, N.C., wrote novels, poetry, and short stories and contributed editorials and short pieces to the "News and Observer" (Raleigh, N.C.), "The Pilot" (Southern Pines, N.C.), and other North Carolina newspapers. Majors works by Stem include "The Animal Fair" (1960), "Entries from Oxford" (1971), "Senator Sam Ervin's Best Stories" (1973), and "Thad Stem's Ark" (1979). Stem is featured in Timothy B. Tyson's memoir "Blood Done Sign My Name." From the desc...

Carroll, Ruth, 1899-1999

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Ruth Robinson Carroll (Vassar College Class of 1922) was a writer and illustrator of children's animal stories, some of which she did in collaboration with her husband Latrobe Carroll (born 1900). From the description of Papers, 1913-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518849 From the description of Ruth Robinson Carroll papers, 1913-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576454 Writer Archer Latrobe Carroll (1894-1996) and artist Ruth Robinson Carroll (1899-199...

Houston, Noel

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North Carolina author. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122418025 ...

Lefler, Hugh Talmage, 1901-1981

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Hugh Talmadge Lefler, Kenan Professor of history at the University of North Carolina. From the description of Hugh Talmadge Lefler papers, 1800s-1977 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 46547929 From the guide to the Hugh Talmadge Lefler Papers, ., 1800s-1977, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Pearson, James Larkin, 1879-1981

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Patton, Frances Gray

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Brown, Marion Lea, 1906-1995

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Hartley, Lodwick Charles, 1906-1979

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Brockman, Zoe Kincaid, 1893-

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Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973

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Bernice Harris (1891-1973) was an author and playwright, largely on southern topics, and leader in civic, cultural, and religious organizations, of Seaboard, N.C. She participated in the W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project, collecting "life histories" of ordinary people in the South. From the description of Bernice Kelly Harris papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997. WorldCat record id: 25507472 Bernice Kelly Harris (8 Oct. 1891-13 Sept. 1973) was born in Wake County, N.C., d...