Olive Tilford Dargan

Her works like: The Cycle's Rim, Lute and Furrow, Highland Annals were inspired from her love of mountains and nature.

Later in her career, she published novels that focuses on racism, sexism, and fascism through her feminist visions of political activism and romanticism.

Her most notable works were Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling which were written as part of her Gastonia novels.

Dargan received an honorary degree in Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1925.

[2] Olive Tilford Dargan started her writing career in 1904 when she published poetic dramas and lyric poetry.

[2] After a fire at her Round Top home, Dargan moved to Asheville, where she lived in Bluebonnet Lodge, once owned by Rutherford Platt Hayes.

Her most notable works were Highland Annals and the Gastonia novels: Call Home The Heart and A Stone Came Rolling.

Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling were influenced by the mountain migrant workers during the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina.

[4] Highland Annals, based on people Dargan knew when she was a widowed farmer in Swain County, North Carolina, was retitled From My Highest Hill in 1941, and this version included photos by Bayard Wooten.

Finding Aid for the Olive Tilford Dargan Manuscript, 1958 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Booker, Keith M. 2005 Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, and Writing, Volume I: A-G” Greenwood Publishing Group, March 1, 2015, Print.

Cella, Laurie J.C. " Radical Romance in the Piedmont: Olive Tilford Dargan's Gastonia Novels, The Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d.