“In George Masa’s Wild Vision, Brent Martin brings together Masa’s arresting images and his own reflections on walking
Category: Literary Award
“Even As We Breathe immerses us in a specific place and time, Asheville’s Grove Park Inn when
“Sandra Muse Isaacs in Eastern Cherokee Stories helps the reader see the oral tradition of the Eastern
“The committee was especially struck by the depth of research and the objective and nuanced perspective that
From the publisher: “In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly
From the publisher: “It’s 1931, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North
From the publisher: “Set in the summer of 1866, a year after the Civil War has ended, That Bright
From the publisher: “Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and
From the publisher: “One of America’s most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked
From the publisher: “In his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and
From the publisher: “In the late 20th century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina
From the publisher: “Heather Newton’s Under the Mercy Trees tells the poignant and unforgettable story of a man forced to
From the publisher: “In Requiem by Fire, Caldwell returns to the same fertile Appalachian ground that provided the setting
From the publisher: “The Grove Park Inn opened in scenic Asheville, North Carolina in 1913, at the height
From the publisher: “From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years
From the publisher: “It is 1872, Agate Hill, North Carolina. On her thirteenth birthday, Molly Petree peeps out
From the publisher: “Shinemaster is a book about discovering plenitude in apparent scarcity. It presents this human paradox in
From the publisher: “This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture.
From the publisher: “The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant
From the publisher: “When photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975,
From the publisher: “Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc. of Asheville published Volume II of ‘May We
From the publisher: “The daughter of sharecroppers and raised on a small farm near the Carolinas’ border, Judy
From the publisher: Tommy Hays’ second novel, In the Family Way, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award for 2000 and
From the publisher: This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred
From the publisher: Cold Mountain, the extraordinary story of a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved at the
From the publisher: The Last Chivaree creates a vivid and unsparing portrait of Appalachian mountain life in the first half
From the publisher: The stereotypical hillbilly figure in popular culture provokes a range of responses, from bemused affection for
From the publisher: Today’s Warren Wilson College emerged from modest beginnings. Indeed, the band of missionary educators who founded
For much of the mainstream media, religious broadcasting evokes images of Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, or
In Wildflower Flower, whose title derives from a traditional country song, Byer speaks through the fictional voice of a
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From the publisher: Antebellum Southern Appalachia has long been seen as a classless and essentially slaveless region – one
From the publisher: Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, the author sketches the
From the publisher: Gail Godwin’s new novel is told in a multiplicity of voices; and what emerges is a
From the publisher: A fond indentification with a certain place, close ties with people, a shared history of experiences
From the publisher: It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would “cross hell on a rotten rail to get
From the publisher: Last One Home, the final book in John Ehle’s masterful Appalachian series that traces the King
From the publisher: In 1916, sixteen-year-old Lucy Saunders, a young black teacher from Orangeburg County, South Carolina, presided over
From the publisher: An examination of the social and economic history of the Appalachian South from 1880 to 1930,
From the publisher: Cabins & Castles was first published in 1981, a joint effort of the Historic Resources Commission and
From the publisher: Mountains Have Come Closer is a collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his
From the publisher: Slavery was practiced among North American Indians long before Europeans arrived on these shores, bringing their
From the author: “This volume, my fourth book of poetry, is different from the kind of poetry in
From the publisher: Part of a three volume set of the history of Henderson County and Hendersonville, embracing a
From the publisher: “Here is history at its best–a story of the Southern Appalachian people that has been gathered
From appstate.edu: The Appalachian Consortium Press was founded in 1973 – the first publisher devoted to Appalachia. The Press published
From the publisher: Born in the mountain town of Boone, NC, in 1870, Blanford Barnard Dougherty remained there for
From the publisher: No region has undergone more dramatic changes in the last century than Western North Carolina. Published
From the publisher: “When Samuel Price Carson became a state senator at the age of 24, he launched a
From the publisher: “The traditional arts among the Eastern Band of Cherokees which are surveyed in this document
From the publisher: “This is a chronicle of how the Civil War affected the lives of certain families
From the publisher: “For 469 miles the Blue Ridge Parkway follows the crests of ridges and mountains on a
From the publisher: “Neal Austin describes the Wolfe family with humor and pathos: ‘W. Oliver Wolfe had been considered
From the publisher: “Frome’s superbly written account tells the story of the Great Smoky Mountains and their inhabitants—Eastern
From the publisher: “Rugged, dynamic, controversial — Zebulon Baird Vance was one of the dominant personalities of the South
From the author: “Reconsideration of Thomas Wolfe is timely. It is now 25 years since his death, and 34
From the author: “No actual [Civil War] campaigns were conducted in the mountains of East Tennessee, Western North
From the book jacket: “David English ‘Daddy’ Camak was born on a cotton farm near Winnsboro, SC, on July
From the book jacket: “Spring came early to Catawba Valley that year. So did polio. Beginning in isolated rural
From the book jacket: “Olive Tilford Dargan needs no introduction to a public familiar with her work. Beginning
From the publisher: “Retrace Western North Carolina’s cultural and natural history with one of its most beloved storytellers and
From the book jacket: “From the moment Look Homeward, Angel was first published, the work of Thomas Wolfe has
From the publisher: “In the years just preceding the War of 1812 one man, an Indian, dominated the American
groundbreaking analysis of environmental concerns. Wilma Dykeman spent years studying the rivers of western North Carolina, but after