![]() ![]() (And I was the first Southern writer to take along a NASCAR driver to that literary seminar. In 2005 I was honored as the writer of the year at the annual literaryĬelebration at Emory and Henry College. ![]() Served as fiction writer-in-residence at the WICE Conference in Paris, and ![]() I was the first writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee. Literature Plattner Award for Short Story and AWA's Best Appalachian Honors include: the 2003 Award for Literature given by theĮast Tennessee Historical Society AWA Outstanding Contribution toĪppalachian Literature Award Chaffin Award for Achievement in Southern Dale, the Canterbury Tales set in NASCAR, was published by Kensington Books of New York in 2005, and is currently a nominee for the Library of Virginia Literary Award in Fiction and a finalist for its People's Choice Award. There is no one quite like McCrumb among present-day writers. These books include New York Times Best Sellers She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket, which deal with the issue of the vanishing wilderness, and The Ballad of Frankie Silver, the story of the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina The Songcatcher, a genealogy in music and Ghost Riders, an account of the Civil War in the Appalachians. Buy a cheap copy of The Rosewood Casket book by Sharyn McCrumb. I am probably best known for myĪppalachian "Ballad" novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains. ![]()
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