North Carolina literature

The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction. Representative authors include playwright Paul Green, short-story writer O. Henry, and novelist Thomas Wolfe.

History
A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749.
 * See Scottish Gaelic literature, Iain mac Mhurchaidh

"The first book published by a black in the South was The Hope of Liberty (1829), which contained poems decrying the slaves' condition, by George Moses Horton of North Carolina." Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Organizations
The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh, and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte. The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985, and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005.

North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees:


 * Anthony S. Abbott (2020)
 * A.R. Ammons
 * Allan Gurganus
 * Bernice Kelly Harris
 * Betty Adcock
 * Bland Simpson
 * Burke Davis
 * Carl Sandburg
 * Carole Boston Weatherford
 * Charles Chesnutt
 * Charles Frazier
 * Christian Reid
 * Clyde Edgerton
 * Doris Betts
 * Elizabeth Daniels Squire
 * Elizabeth Spencer
 * Frances Gray Patton
 * Fred Chappell
 * George Moses Horton
 * Gerald Barrax
 * Gerald Johnson
 * Glen Rounds
 * Guy Owen
 * Harriet Jacobs
 * Helen Bevington
 * Inglis Fletcher
 * Jaki Shelton Green
 * James Applewhite
 * James Boyd
 * James W. Clark Jr.
 * James Ephraim McGirt
 * Jill McCorkle
 * John Charles McNeill
 * John Ehle
 * John Hope Franklin
 * John Lawson
 * Jonathan Williams
 * Jonathan Worth Daniels
 * Joseph Mitchell
 * Kathryn Stripling Byer
 * Lee Smith
 * Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
 * Manly Wade Wellman
 * Margaret Maron
 * Marsha White Warren
 * Max Steele
 * Maya Angelou
 * Olive Tilford Dargan
 * Paul Green
 * Pauli Murray
 * Penelope Niven
 * Randall Jarrell
 * Randall Kenan
 * Reynolds Price
 * Richard Walser
 * Robert Morgan
 * Robert Ruark
 * Ronald H. Bayes
 * Sam Ragan
 * Samm-Art Williams
 * Shelby Stephenson
 * Thad Stem, Jr.
 * Thomas Wolfe
 * Tom Wicker
 * Walter Hines Page
 * Wilbur J. Cash
 * William LeGette Blythe
 * William S. Powell
 * William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry
 * Wilma Dykeman

Awards and events
In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate.