Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award

Given by 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

mostrar más Wilma Dykeman won for The French Broad. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (62), Finalist (42), Semifinalist (19)
Years:
Todos, 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (6), 2019 (5), 2018 (6), 2017 (9), 2016 (10), 2015 (5), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1), 1956 (1), 1955 (1)

Winner 62

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

Finalist 42

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

Semifinalist 19

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

Descripciones

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, Award granter)
URL: https://www.ashevillehistory.org/literaryaward/

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

(English, No clasificado)

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