Wiley Cash

2020 ◽  
pp. 630-634
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Bobbie Ann Mason ◽  
Thomas Wolfe ◽  
Ernest Gaines ◽  
University Of Louisiana ◽  
The University

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Wiley Cash grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina. He earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, an MA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At Louisiana, he studied with Ernest Gaines, an influence on his thinking about the importance of place in fiction. Cash identifies early twentieth-century Appalachian author Thomas Wolfe and southern authors William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason as other sources of his interest in place....

We So-Called Free Moderns

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ritterhouse
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
The South ◽  
Thomas Wolfe ◽  
Southern Renaissance ◽  
The University

This chapter provides biographical background on Jonathan Daniels. His education at the University of North Carolina, ambitions as a novelist, and publication of Clash of Angels (1930) are highlighted. The death in childbirth of his first wife, Elizabeth Bridgers Daniels, made it difficult for the grieving Daniels to complete a second, satirical novel that might have been his entry into the developing Southern Renaissance alongside his former classmate Thomas Wolfe. The liberal-minded editorials Daniels wrote after taking over from his father as editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1933 are contrasted with Josephus Daniels's role in North Carolina's "white supremacy campaign" of 1898 that resulted in the Wilmington massacre. Jonathan's liberalism reflected the influence of other white southern liberals such as Regionalist sociologist Howard Odum and publisher W. T. Couch. New York editor Harold Strauss encouraged Daniels to write a book about the South, resulting in his journey.

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