Authors Born in North Carolina

1

Kevin Williamson, 57

2

Caitlin Covington, 32

3

Josh Pate, 53

4

O Henry (1862-1910)

5

Eloise Greenfield (1929-2021)

6

Gary Chapman, 85

7

Lauren Myracle, 53

8

Theodore Taylor (1921-2006)

9

Thomas Sowell, 92

10

Madison Nelson, 32

11

Jonathan Williams (1929-2008)

12

Vani Hari, 43

13

Michael Blake (1945-2015)

14

Kim Roberts, 61

15

Michelle Myers, 38

16

Tom Robbins, 90

17

Ursula Vernon, 45

18

Fly Guy, 34

19

McKenna Bleu, 38

20

Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945)

21

Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)

22

Kirsten Miller, 49

23

Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

24

Emily P. Freeman, 45

25

Jackson Pearce, 38

26

Skip Hollandsworth, 65

27

James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981)

28

Holly Boyd, 36

29

John Townsend, 70

30

Thomas Dixon (1864-1946)

31

Carter Covington, 49

32

Sharyn McCrumb, 74

33

Reynolds Price (1933-2011)

34

Angela Shelton, 50

35

Tony Hoagland (1953-2018)

36

Harvey Bullock (1921-2006)

37

Shelby Vanhoy, 32

38

AR Ammons (1926-2001)

39

Lionel Shriver, 65

40

Robert Ruark (1915-1965)

41

John Ehle (1925-2018)

42

Sam Ragan (1915-1996)

43

Charles Frazier, 72

44

Clyde Edgerton, 78

45

Kaye Gibbons, 62

46

Fred Chappell, 86

47

Nathaniel Benchley (1915-1981)

48

Robert Schenkkan, 69