Mffi Ch ro fina Ozzyerar y establish ed Ma 1 8 1 996 y , as a program of ' N orth C arolina Writ ers N etw ork Weym o u th C enter fo r th e Art s H um anities S ou th e n Pines N o th C a o lina r , r r ’ (Errozna I [99 6 fi re/a c/ees Jam es B oyd C harles W C hesnu tt Jonathan D aniels Inglis Fletcher Pau l Green B ernice Kelly Harris 0. Henry George Moses Horton Randall Jarrell Gerald Johnson G u y Ow en Thad t m . S e , Jr Richard Walser Manly Wade Wellm an Thom as Wolfe Editor MarshaWhite Warren ’ Copyright 1 996 by Th e North Carolina Writers Network N n Chapel Hill , orth Caroli a Acknowledgements Th is program was made possible with a generous grant from$ Th e North Carolina Department ofCultural Resources Th e l i terary Community is grateful forgenerous supportfrom Th e Pilot Th e Friends ofWeymouth Sandhills Community College North Carolina State University Humanities Extension Th e North Carolina Collection at UNC o C h ap el Hill Secretary ofCultural Resources Betty Ray McC ain David Brinkley W i Dr. illiam C . Fr day and th e additional support from Th e Town of Southern Pines UNC - Chapel Hill Photographic Services Th e Nort h Carolina Division ofArchives and History Th e Division of Travel and Tourism NC . Literary Hall ofFame Committee and Judges Th e North Carolina Poetry Society Th e Estate of Thomas Wolfe Th e Paul Green Foundation State Library of North Carolina Center for the Book Howard Lee and Russell Walker E valynn Halsey Th e publisher gratefully acknowledges the use of th e photographs and selections of work by these fi ft een 1 996 North Carolina Literary Hall ofFame Inductees . Th e ’ s n . photographers , publi hers , sources and dates are so oted on each author s pages Cover and Dedication Page Art$ E valynn Halsey — Book Design and Production$ Katherine Kub el Print to Fit Inductee Biograph y Copy$ Deborah Brody Printer$ Southern Print ing ro /[m i a l l/w ar (gi y Indu ctio n C erem o ny May 1 8 , 1 9 9 6 Sch edule for th e Day WE LCOME Tributes to Sam Ragan including a brief vide o by D avid Brinkley IN DU CTION CE RE MON $ Inductee Presenting Accepting S B D S S B . JAME OY helby tephenson James oyd , Jr CHARLES W CHESNUTT Dorothy S . Redford Willis McLeo d N T N D N S Ro . D. S JO A HA A IEL y Parker, Jr Elizabeth quire INGLIS FLETCHER Keats Sparrow Inglis Fletcher Baum PAUL GREEN John Ehle Byrd Green Cornwell BERN ICE KELLY HARRIS Emily Wilson Alice Kelley Burrows R O. HEN Y Sally Buckner Roberta Porter Hon GEORGE MOSES HORTON Jaki Shelton Green Robert Anthony RAN DALL JARRELL Fred Chappell MaryJarrell GERALD JOHNSON Bynum Shaw Jim Jenkins G U$ OWEN Gerald Barrax Dorothy Owen T D ST R . B D S HA EM , J Charles lackburn ery tem RICHARD WALSER James Clark George Poland MAN LY WADE WELLMAN Stephen Smith Frances Wellman W . THOMAS OLFE H . G Jones John Idol RE CE PTION Foreword We mo uth Writers and Wo rds y , It 92 now and i n n is a sturdy house , years old still r si g tall amo g glossy magnolias and tall p ines which lean into the Carolina wind . Its elegance n n n n n one is u derstated , with o e ofthe oste tatio might expect of a — W twenty room house . eymouth served the Boyd family well for seventy n 1 9 9 n n n years ; si ce 7 its service has expa ded beyo d family to commu ity , its mission marked by the good taste which distinguishes its architectural design . In 1 and n 2 904 , James Boyd , a steel railroad mag ate , purchased 1 00 w acres in Southern Pines and built a home . He christened this ne estate “ ” W n in En n . Set eymouth , after a tow he had visited gla d amidst a n n n n — n n n mag ifice t sta d ofvirgin lo g leaf pi es , it served as a cou try ma or n n d n n where his gra dso an amesake , James , ofte came as a boy to repair frail health and explore the imposing p ine forest and surrou nding countryside . ’ Later young James went to Princeton and earned a master s degree at W W . A n an n n ar I an Cambridge fter servi g as ambula ce driver duri g orld , n n rn experie ce which left his health eve more fragile , he retu ed to W . In 1 9 1 9 and new eymouth for recovery , he his wife , the former n n n n n in now Kathari e Lamo t , spe t their ho eymoo the house , which by » co own r n . Th e n and James ed with his brothe , Jackso followi g year, he Katharine moved to Weymouth and began redesigning it . They moved part ofthe original house across Connecticut Avenue to become part of ’ n new n w n wn . To Jackso s home , o k o as the Campbell House the n n tr n r and n n n remai i g s ucture , they added a seco d sto y two wi gs , e largi g - the Georgian style house to 9000square feet . N ow 3 2 B n n years old , James oyd left the ma ageme t of the family business to his brother while he p ursued the dream which had begun when he was editor ofhis high school newspaper $ to become a write r. ’ B D W n n B in oyd s biographer, avid his a t , observes that oyd chose to live “ Southern Pines because this site seemed to offer the best conditions for nn n — begi i g [a literary career$ reasonable physical comfort , freedom from n n n distractio s , and a mild a opportu ity to affirm the n ta gible values of Am erican life . One of the earliest visitors to the newly o enlarged home was British novelist and playwright John ’ n B n tr Galsworthy , who , after readi g oyd s stories , e couraged him to y a “ n n n N w $ an on ovel , the , o a trip to e ork , urged p ublishers to keep eye ’ ’ 2 S n B n Drums . It . In 1 9 5 James Boyd , crib er s published oyd s first ovel , n n no t n r — wo n immediate atte tio , o ly for its sto y but for its realism the ’ result of Boyd s extensive and meticulous research . n o n n n and Boyd we t to write more ovels , a umber ofshort stories a r . In 1 9 1 n n and collection of poet y 4 , he expa ded his career by p urchasi g rn n Pilo . n editing the Southe Pi es t Mea while , his home became a n $ T W F. welcome retreat for ma y of the best writers ofthe day homas olfe , S W F n E n n n P cott Fitzgerald , illiam aulk er, r est Hemi gway , Joh nd and n d n r Marqua , Paul Gree , as well as his e itor, the lege da y Maxwell n and NC . W . N n S Perki s , his illustrator, yeth His daughter, a cy okoloff, ’ ‘ ’ ’ recalls that During my father s lifetime there were no writers colonies . Our living room and that of Paul and Elizabeth Green served as settings and n n S n n and for serious work , co versatio s about outher writi g its ” future . Th e serious co nversations we nt beyond literature . During World War II B n and n n n F , oyd orga ized served as the atio al chairma of the ree n n n d Compa y of Players , a group of writers who were co cer e that constitutio nal rights might be compromised during the fre nzy of wartime . Among the writers joining him in writing plays for broadcast over n n n W n MacLeiSh and atio al radio were Orso elles , Paul Gree , Archibald , Stephen $ incent Benet . ’ In 1 9 B n n n n 44 , after James oyd s u timely death , Kathari e co ti ued n W and b n Pilo . Sh e and n . livi g at eymouth pu lishi g the t her so s , James , Jr and Dan and a N n n 00 ine ' filled , d ughter, a cy , do ated 4 p acres to the state for development into Weymouth Woods Sandhills N ature Preserve . W n in 1 9 and n n n he she died 74 , she the childre left the house , remai i g n and S n n in 1 9 la d forest to a dhills Commu ity College , which 7 7 put the estate on the market . Fearful that this treasure would b e demolished by nd B n n . developers , two frie s of the oyds u dertook the task of savi g it E S n n B uffie n d nd W Inc . lizabeth teve so ( ) Ives orga ize Frie s of eymouth , ; S am R n no w Pilot d aga , editor of the , rallie support from the state of N n N n n S N orth Caroli a , the ature Co serva cy , the ierra Club , the orth W Carolina riters Conference and the North Carolina Poetry Society .