North Carolina literature

The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction.

Representative authors include playwright Paul Green, short-story writer O. Henry, and novelist Thomas Wolfe.

[1] A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749.

[2] "The first book published by a black in the South was The Hope of Liberty (1829), which contained poems decrying the slaves' condition, by George Moses Horton of North Carolina.

[8] The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines.