Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award

Vergeben durch Western North Carolina Historical Association

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Originated by the Louis Lipinsky family, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award has been presented annually for printed works that focus special attention on Western North Carolina since 1955 when

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Etappen:
Alle, Winner (62), Finalist (42), Semifinalist (19)
Jahre:
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Winner 62

WerkJahr
George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina (Cold Mountain Fund Series) von Brent Martin2022
Even As We Breathe von Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle2021
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance von Sandra Muse Isaacs2020
Back of Beyond A Horace Kephart Biography von George Ellison2019
Varina von Charles Frazier2018
Over the Plain Houses von Julia Franks2017
That Bright Land von Terry Roberts2016
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia von Fiona Ritchie2015
The Road from Gap Creek von Robert Morgan2014
A Land More Kind than Home von Wiley Cash2013
Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina (Environmental History and the American South) von Kathryn Newfont2012
Under the Mercy Trees: A Novel von Heather Newton2011
Requiem by Fire: A Novel von Wayne Caldwell2010
Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Furniture (Popular Woodworking) von Bruce Johnson2009
Chemistry and Other Stories von Ron Rash2008
On Agate Hill von Lee Smith2007
Shinemaster von Michael McFee2006
High Mountains Rising: APPALACHIA IN TIME AND PLACE von Richard A. Straw2005
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South von Leon Fink2003
Sodom Laurel Album von Rob Amberg2002
May we all remember well-Volume II: A journal of the history & cultures of western North Carolina von Robert S. Brunk2001
Carolina Ghost Woods von Judy Jordan2000
In the Family Way: A Novel von Tommy Hays1999
Living Stories of the Cherokee von Barbara R. Duncan1998
Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain von Charles Frazier1997
The Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family of Beech Mountain von Robert Isbell1996
Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies von J. W. Williamson1995
Warren Wilson College: A centennial portrait von Reuben A. Holden1994
The airwaves of Zion : radio and religion in Appalachia von Howard Dorgan1993
Wildwood Flower: Poems von Kathryn Stripling Byer1992
Mountain Masters: Slavery Sectional Crisis Western North Carolina von John C. Inscoe1989
Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 von Durwood Dunn1988
Eine Familie des Südens von Gail Godwin1987
Rural Community in the Appalachian South von Patricia D. Beaver1986
Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford von Loyal Jones1985
Last One Home von John Ehle1984
Strangers No More (Hearthstone Book) von Lucy S. Herring1983
Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 von Ronald D. Eller1982
Cabins & Castles von Talmage Powell1981
The Mountains Have Come Closer von Jim Wayne Miller1980
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866 von Theda Perdue1979
Day of Miracles [Inscribed by the Author] von Charlotte Young1978
From the banks of the Oklawaha von Frank L. FitzSimons1977
MOUNTAIN MEASURE, a Southern Appalachian Verse Notebook. von Francis Pledger Hulme1976
Blanford Barnard Dougherty, mountain educator von Ruby J. Lanier1974
Western North Carolina since the Civil War von Ina Woestemeyer Van Noppen1973
A long, long day for November von Moffitt Sinclair Henderson1972
Arts and Crafts of the Cherokee von Rodney L. Leftwich1971
The Grandfather and the Globe von Dell B. Wilson1970
The Blue Ridge Parkway von Harley E. Jolley1969
A Biography of Thomas Wolfe von Neal F. Austin1968
Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains von Michael Frome1967
Zeb Vance: champion of personal freedom von Glenn Tucker1966
Thomas Wolfe von Bruce Robert McElderry1964
Stoneman's Last Raid von Ina Woestemeyer Van Noppen1962
Human gold from southern hills,: Not a novel but a romance of facts von David English Camak1961
We Made Peace With Polio von Luther Robinson1960
The Spotted Hawk von Olive Tilford Dargan1959
My mountains, my people von John Parris1958
Thomas Wolfe's Characters: Portraits from Life von Floyd C. Watkins1957
Tecumseh: Vision of Glory von Glenn Tucker1956
The French Broad von Wilma Dykeman1955

Finalist 42

WerkJahr
George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina (Cold Mountain Fund Series) von Brent Martin2022
Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (Indians and Southern History) von Lance Greene2022
McMullen Circle von Heather Newton2022
Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time von John E. Ross2022
Murder at Asheville's Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger's Killer (True Crime) von Anne Chesky Smith2022
Even As We Breathe von Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle2021
Lige of the Black Walnut Tree: Growing Up Black in Southern Appalachia von Mary Othella Burnette2021
Woodsmoke von Wayne Caldwell2021
And the Crows Took Their Eyes von Vicki Lane2021
All the Great Territories (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) von Matthew Austin Wimberley2021
Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance von Sandra Muse Isaacs2020
F*ckface: And Other Stories von Leah Hampton2020
Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies) von Susan E. Keefe2020
Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty von Courtney Lewis2020
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia von Rose McLarney2020
Appalachian Book of the Dead von Dale Neal2020
Back of Beyond A Horace Kephart Biography von George Ellison2019
Willa of the Wood von Robert Beatty2019
The Line That Held Us von David Joy2019
Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film (The South on Screen Ser.) von Meredith McCarroll2019
The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival von Terry Roberts2019
Varina von Charles Frazier2018
Maranatha Road von Heather Bell Adams2018
Monuments to absence : Cherokee removal and the contest over southern memory von Andrew Denson2018
Blight von Alexandra Duncan2018
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home von Denise Kiernan2018
The Barrowfields von Phillip Lewis2018
Over the Plain Houses von Julia Franks2017
Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood von Wilma Dykeman2017
Hazel creek the life and death of an iconic mountain community von Daniel S. Pierce2017
The Risen von Ron Rash2017
No One Is Coming to Save Us von Stephanie Powell Watts2017
That Bright Land von Terry Roberts2016
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance (Music in American Life) von Phil Jamison2016
Grandfather Mountain: The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon von Randy Johnson2016
Dark Energy (Poets, Penguin) von Robert Morgan2016
Above the Waterfall von Ron Rash2016
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia von Fiona Ritchie2015
The Life of the World to Come: A Novel von Joseph Bathanti2015
Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories von Tony Earley2015
Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland von Jeremy B. Jones2015
Where All Light Tends to Go von David Joy2015

Semifinalist 19

WerkJahr
Over the Plain Houses von Julia Franks2017
Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood von Wilma Dykeman2017
Grief Cottage von Gail Godwin2017
The Weight of This World von David Joy2017
We Were Once Here von Michael McFee2017
Hazel creek the life and death of an iconic mountain community von Daniel S. Pierce2017
The Risen von Ron Rash2017
No One Is Coming to Save Us von Stephanie Powell Watts2017
Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God von Walter Ziffer2017
That Bright Land von Terry Roberts2016
Useful Work: Photographs from Hickory Nut Gap Farm von Ken Abbott2016
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance (Music in American Life) von Phil Jamison2016
Grandfather Mountain: The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon von Randy Johnson2016
How to Talk to Rockstars von Alli Marshall2016
Fresh Water from Old Wells von Cindy Henry McMahon2016
Chasing the North Star: A Novel von Robert Morgan2016
Dark Energy (Poets, Penguin) von Robert Morgan2016
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains von Steven E. Nash2016
Above the Waterfall von Ron Rash2016

Beschreibungen

Originated by the Louis Lipinsky family, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award has been presented annually for printed works that focus special attention on Western North Carolina since 1955 when Wilma Dykeman won for The French Broad.

(English, Preisverleiher)
URL: https://www.ashevillehistory.org/literaryaward/

No awards were given in the years 2004, 1991, 1990, 1965, or 1963.

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