The 1968 Books
By HOY KEMP
The plethora of books produced b\
North Carolina's writers and poets in
1968 proves there is no noticeable lag
in their productivity. Honors and
awards were bestowed upon these
creative workers and this is indicative
that quality has been maintained, for
the most part.
Fred C happell, novelist, and Eleanor Ross
Taylor.
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were among 8 persons who
received honorariums of $2. 5(H) each,
granted by the National Institute of Arts
and Letters grants in literature.
Carl Sandburg's The Wedding Procession
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Who Win in li was selected as one of the
American Library Association's choices of
1967 Notable Children’s Books.
Cilen Rounds' The Treeless Plains was
selected as one of the best Western juvenile
nonfiction books, by the Western Writers of
America organization.
Richard McKenna appeared in Best
American Short Stories IV6S with his
novelette The Sons of Martha, the title story
of his last volume. The annual anthology was
edited by Martha Foley and David Burnett
(Houghton Mifflin: S6.50).
In the field of the literary novel. Tar Heel
novelists held their own in some strong
competition.
Love and Work, by Reynolds Price
(Atheneum; $5.00). was a short, distin¬
guished novel which was concerned with a
young Southern professor and writer whose
marriage was happy although troubled fit¬
fully.
Pagan, by Fred Chappell (Harcourt.
Brace A World. Inc.: $4.75). told the story
of the disintegration and ironically trium¬
phant end of a young minister in North
Carolina, after he discovers strange instru¬
ments of torture and inscriptions in his
family attic.
Cone a Hundred Miles . by Heather Ross
Miller (Harcourt. Brace A World. Inc.:
$4.95»,
was a straightforward story about
a German doctor who settled in rural North
Carolina in the early 19th Century.
The Devil’s Half, by Ovid Williams Pierce
(Doubleday: $4.95). was a novel of planta¬
tion life in North Carolina in 1868. and
which told the story of a gentle woman in a
time of personal and family travail.
The Nazi II outer, by Bynum Shaw (Nor¬
ton: $4.95). a second novel, was concerned
with events following the second world war.
Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellinv lied.
by Leon Rooke (Louisiana State University
Press; $5.95). is a first book, a brilliant
collection of short stories.
Where She Brushed Her Hair and Ollier
Stories, by Max Steele (Harper A Rosy;
$5.95). was a collection of
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short stories.
Another short story collection was A Hag-
stone Walk, by T had Stem. Jr. (McNally A
Loftin; $4.00).
The Checkerboard Corridor, by Rixic
Hunter (John F. Blair: $5.95). is a prob¬
ing novel which deals with the antics of
smalltown politicians. The author, now
deceased, was a Winston-Salem reporter.
The Greensboro Retard, edited by Robert
Watson and Roark Gibbons (UNC Press;
$6.(81), is a collection of stories and poetry
by writers and p«>cts who cither taught or
studied at the UNC in Greensboro during
the past JO years.
Red Clay Reader 4. cditcJ by Charlccn
Whisnant (Southern Review; $3.00), is
another collection of prose and poetry.
Big Rend, by Richard Meade (Ben Haas)
( Doubleday: $3.95). is one of this pub¬
lisher's Double D western novels.
While the Mock Orange Wails . by Viola S.
Burch ( Dorrancc A Co.; $4.00). is a first
novel, sentimental in nature, which tells of
family living in the early 20th Century in
North Carolina.
An unpublished story written by Richard
McKenna, was included in Orht .1: The
Best New Science Fiction Stories of the
Year (Putnam's; $4.95).
Another short story by McKenna, entitled
"I he Secret Place." was included in Nebula
Award Stories Two (Pocket Books: 75
cents).
The Solar Invasion, by Manly Wade
Wellman (Popular Library: 60 cents), was
an original science fiction softcover novel.
C«id Willioms Pierce, pictured ot The Plonto
tion, ncor Enfield, wrote
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novel of North Coro
lino plontotion life in port-Civil Wor do»».
Historical and I r adit maal Tar Heel
Stories, by Louise R. Booker (Johnson Pub.
Co.: $3.75). is a volume of colorful tales
and anecdotes about the central Coastal
plains.
Ghost Tales of the Uwliarries. by Fred T.
Morgan (John F. Blair: $3.95). is another
collection of ghostly legends of the Uwharric
Mountains.
Stranger in our Darkness, by Joyce Craw¬
ford ( Moore Pub. Co.: $4.95). is a novel
about a woman whose great fear is that an
alcoholic represents a danger to herself, her
husband, and her children.
The Sorrows of Frederick, by Romulus
I inney (Harcourt. Brace A World: $4.95):
is a play about Frederick the Great which
was successfully produced in Los Angeles.
Телах,
by Paul Green (Samuel French:
$2.00), is a symphonic outdoor drama of
American life.
Washington Quadrille: The Dance Be¬
side the Document*, by Jonathan Daniels
( Doubleday: $5.95). tells the fascinating
history of the ladies of Washington who
helped shape American political life be¬
tween the years 1910 and 1945.
General Marshall Remembered, by Rose
Page Wilson (Prentice-Hall; $7.95). is a
profile by Marshall's own godchild, now
living in Durham.
Eisenhower: The President Nobody
Knows, by Arthur Larson (Scribner's;
$5.95). is a volume by the man who served
as special consultant and chief speech writer
for President l-iscnhowcr.
The Big Tittle Man from Brooklyn, by
St. Clair McKclway ( Houghton-Mifflin:
$5.95). is a volume of bi/arre human be¬
havior.
White Over Black, by Winlhrop D. Jor¬
dan (UNC Press: $12.50). surveys the fears
which white people developed vis-a-vis
Negroes in America.
The North Carolina Gazeteer. by Wil¬
liam S. Powell (UNC Press; $12.50) is a
magnificent achievement and a monumental
work, the most comprehensive compilation
of Tar Hcelia.
North Carolina Politic*, by Jack D. Fleer
(UNC Press: $4.95 cloth; $2.95 paper), is
subtitled An Introduction. It is a history of
the structure and nature of the State's politics
during the period 1940-1966.
JIK and TBJ: The Influence of Per¬
sonality on Politics, by Tom Wicker (Mor¬
row: $5.00). tells of the careers of John F.
Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Philosophy of the American Con¬
stitution: A Reinterpretation of the Inten¬
tions of the Founding Fathers, by Paul
Fidelbcrg ( Free Press; $6.95). was authored
by an assistant professor at North Carolina
S:atc University.
Malcolm Boyd. Fric Scvarcid. and North
Carolina's pri/c-winning photographer Bruce
Roberts collaborated on a volume. You
Can't Kill the Dream (John Knox Press:
$2.95). which is a graphic study of what has
happened to the American dream of justice,
freedom, and equality for all races in the
last eight years.
The Making of a Governor, by James R.
Spence (John F. Blair; $1.95). is an un¬
precedented study of North Carolina politics,
and of the Moore- Prey er-l.ake primaries of
1964.
A Williamsburg Galaxy, by Burke Davis
(Holt. Rinehart A Winston:
$3.95»
is a
volume for the young adult, consisting «if
capsule portraits «if 20 men who influenced
the course of the Virginia colony and of the
nation.
Burke Davis was also the co-author with
Roy King of The World of Currier and Ives
(Random House: $25.00). which contains
60 Currier and Ives prints, each with text,
and a narrative history of the firm.
David, by Bruce and Nancy Roberts
( John Knox Press: $4.50), tells of the re¬
lationship and feelings of parents toward
their retarded child.
The Letters of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt.
Brace A W.irld: $10.00) is a collection of
622 letters written by the famed poet who
adopted North Carolina as his home.
The Letters of Thomas Wolfe to His
Mother is a newly-edited selection by
C. Hugh Holman and Sue Fields Ross (UN'C
Press; $7.50). which shed light «>n the
author's personality.
Another Thomas Wolfe volume which
will be «if considerable interest to North
Camlinians is Andrew Turnbull's Thomas
Wolfe (Scribner's: $7.95). a fully-rounded
biography which captures the tumultuous
life of North Carolina's man of letters.
Flashing Wings: The Drama of Bird
Flight, by John K. Torres (Doubleday;
$4.95). tells of the life of hummingbirds,
hawks, vultures, and other birds and how
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THE STATE. January IS. 1969
