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Hillsborough is home to a great number of wonderful writers and artists. Check back as we continue to add info about the authors and photographers.
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DOUG MARLETTE
Dec 6, 1949 - July 10, 2007
JOHN BEMIS
“I’ve always been fascinated by trains. My grandfather hopped trains all over the country in his ”hobo days” and filled my head with curious stories of America’s lost past. Those stories, I suppose, were the beginnings of my first novel.”
Nine Pound Hammer
Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist and author of novels, the Bridge, and Magic Time. His editorial cartoons and Kudzu were syndicatd in newspapers worldwide.
HAL CROWTHER
CRAIG NOVA
Writer
Award winning author of 12 novels and currently an Artist in Residence at UNC-G.
The Informer, set in 1930s Berlin, is a literary thriller capturing the menace and malice of pre-war Berlin through the eyes of characters dealing with forces far beyond their control.
“In the writing of Hal Crowther, lyrical language joins wit and frankness, and the South – with all its burdens, curiosties, and promises – comes vividly into view.”
Gather at the River
Cathedrals of Kudzu
Unarmed but Dangerous
ANNIE DILLARD
The Maytrees (novel);
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Pulitizer)
Holy the Firm;
For the Time Being (nonfiction narratives);
An American Childhood
ELIZABETH MATHESON
Photographer
Elizabeth Matheson received the
prestigious North Carolina Award
in 2004. The state’s highest honor
in the Fine Art category.
FRANCES MAYES
Under the Tuscan Sun
ALLAN GURGANUS *
Allan Gurganus, a native North Carolinian, moved from Manhattan to Hillsborough in 1992. He considers this Bird Sanctuary the ideal roost for writers.
Gurganus is at work on his new novel, second volume in the Falls Trilogy that began with "Widow": "The Erotic History of a Southern Baptist Church."
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Plays Well with Other
White People
The Practical Heart
JILL MCCORKLE
Jill McCorkle is a professor in the MFA in Creative Writing program at NC State. She has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Tufts University and Brandeis, where she was the Frannie Hurst Visiting Writer. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard for five years where she also served as chair of the creative writing program.
Going Away Shoes
Final Vinyl Days
Creatures of Habit
The Cheer Leader
SARAH HOYT
BARRY JACOBS
Photo, Tom Rankin
July 7th
Ferris Beach
Feb 1818 – May 1907
Dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln and enslaved in the Burwell Household.
Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
DAVID PAYNE
MAX PRESTON, poet
The Phoenix Collection & Other Poems
ROBERT D. RICHARDSON
JENNIFER LAZINSK
LEE SMITH
Jennifer, an Occupational Therapist working with children with special needs and teaching children's yoga was inspired by her muse (her daughter, Jordana) to write books of substance emphasizing values that she wants to impart to children. Jennifer lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina with her wonderful husband, Harvey, and radiant 5 year old daughter, Jordana.
Novelist and short story writer. Has won numerous awards, the most recent being Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award for On Agate Hill, 2007. Read more about Lee at http://LeeSmith.com
Fair and Tender Ladies
Family LineN
Oral History
Black Mountain Breakdown
The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed
On Agate Hill
The Last Girls
The Christmas Letters
Saving Grace
The Devil's Dream
* Alan Gurganus and Michael Malone are starring actors in the annual performance of “A Christmas Carol.”
Alan Gurganus is also known for his Halloween open-house .
MICHAEL MALONE *
American author and television writer.
Delectable Mountains
Dingley Falls
Handling Sin
Uncivil Seasons
Time’s Witness
Foolscap
First Lady
Red Clay, Blue Cadillac
The last Noel
The Killing Club
Purple Crow Books © 2009 Sharon Wheeler