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Terry Roberts (novelist and educator) Terry Roberts (born July 30, 1956) is an American novelist and educator. He has written extensively about American public education, specifically the teaching of critical and creative thinking via Socratic discussion. He is also the author of three novels, all of which flow out of his heritage in southern Appalachia. His first novel, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and his second, That Bright Land, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award and the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South. His third novel is The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival.   Early Life and education Terry Roberts’ direct ancestors have lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina since the time of the Revolutionary War. His family has farmed in the Big Pine section of Madison County along the French Broad River for generations and is also prominent in the Madison County, NC town of Hot Springs, the setting for both A Short Time to Stay Here and That Bright Land. Roberts is the son of Lee Roberts and Helen Sampson Roberts. He was born in Asheville and raised near the small mountain town of Weaverville, North Carolina  by his parents and his paternal grandmother, Belva Anderson Roberts, from whom he heard countless stories of long-ago mountain life. From his parents and extended family, he inherited two strong influences that became lifelong obsessions: a love of story and the written word, along with a fierce belief in the value of education. He himself went to local public schools and earned degrees from the University of North Carolina at Asheville (BA), Duke University (MAT), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD in American and Southern Literature). Career After earning an MAT from Duke University in 1979, Roberts taught high school English for nine years before returning to graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a PhD in 1991 with a dissertation on the fiction of Elizabeth Spencer. Since 1992, he has served as Director of the National Paideia Center, an educational reform institute devoted to creating schools that are both more rigorous and more equitable. During his time at the Paideia Center, Roberts has written extensively about classroom instruction and, increasingly, about teaching critical and creative thinking in the context of an expanded definition of literacy. Around 2005, Roberts began to write fiction inspired by life in the southern Appalachian mountains. Since 2013, he has lived in Asheville, North Carolina.

Bibliography Novels: A Short Time to Stay Here (Ingalls, 2012 and Turner, 2016) –winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction given annually for the best novel by a North Carolinian. That Bright Land (Turner 2016) – winner of the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award. The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival, (Turner 2019). Literary Criticism: Self and Community in the Fiction of Elizabeth Spencer (LSU Press, 1994). Look Homeward, Angel: Literary Masterpieces (Gale Studies Group, 2001). Education: The Power of Paideia Schools: Lives Defined by Learning [primary author with the staff of the National Paideia Center] (ASCD, 1998). Teaching for Understanding: the Paideia Classroom [with Laura Billings] (Eye on Education, 1998). Discussing First Freedoms: A Discussion Guide (for teachers) to A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (with Laura Billings). First Amendment Center, 2007.

Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Learning [with Laura Billings] (Eye on Education, 2012). The Better Writing Breakthrough: Connecting Student Thinking and Discussion to Inspire Great Writing [with Eleanor Dougherty and Laura Billings] Foreword by John Hattie (ASCD, 2016). The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive. Foreword by Howard Gardner. Turner Publishing, 2019.

Articles “Fact and Fancy in Historical Fiction” (2019) The Great Smokies Review, Issue 21, 2019 http://www.thegreatsmokiesreview.org/2016/craft-session/fact-and-fancy-in-historical-fiction/?doing_wp_cron=1580908274.4411399364471435546875

Webinar Using Discussion to Inspire Writing, ASCD, 2016 http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars/using-discussion-to-inspire-writing-webinar.aspx

References

1.	https://www.citizentribune.com/education/roberts-looks-to-gentle-strength-when-writing-about-appalachia-and/article_52f4b0de-2780-11e9-b183-4fe55c8e04fe.html

2.	https://www.fellowshipofsouthernwriters.org/james-still-award

3.	https://mds.marshall.edu/asa_conference/2019/session3/21/

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