Dr Tony Shaw

This novel is another example of the Lowcountry sub-genre of Southern literature, and as such is peppered with names of places in the area, ...

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At Bellemeade and Elm, downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, is an area set aside for a stone display in tribute to the short story writer O....

Henry Jerome Stockard (1858-1914) is most noted as the author of the poetry collection Fugitive Lines (1897) and A Study of Poetry (1911),...

At West Marion and Martin in Shelby, near Gastonia in North Carolina, there are three historical markers, two of which relate to writers: T...

The paper mill in Canton dominates the town with such a wonderful ferocity, its smell greeting the nose as much as its sight greets the eyes...

Margaret Warner Morley (1858-1963) was born in Iowa and educated in Brooklyn, but made her name in the southern Appalachians. She took p...

At Old Fort Cemetery, in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, is another angel carved in Carrara, Italy, and bought by W. O. Wolfe fo...

In Asheville's Riverside Cemetery, North Carolina, it's easy to spot the famous writers buried here - Thomas Wolfe, and O. Henry (Wi...

In a blog post last year, I wrote about the Hendersonville Angel as a model for Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel here . The theory -...

Horace Kephart (1862–1931) had spent 13 years as a librarian in St Louis, Missouri, when, in 1904, he separated from his wife and six chil...

All right, this has almost nothing to do with literature, but the similarities between the Cherokee bears and the Larkin toads in Hull are s...