{"id":11341,"date":"2015-09-18T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:58","slug":"edgerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=11341","title":{"rendered":"Clyde Edgerton to deliver Thomas Wolfe Lecture on Oct. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Clyde<\/a>
Clyde Edgerton (photo by Brent Clark)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina author Clyde Edgerton will receive the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u2019s 2015 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture on Oct. 6 at 7:30 pm in Carolina\u2019s Genome Sciences Building auditorium.<\/p>\n

Edgerton, a Carolina alumnus, has published 10 novels, a book of advice (\u201cPapadaddy’s Book for New Fathers\u201d) and a memoir (\u201cSolo, My Adventures in the Air\u201d). \u201cThe Night Train,\u201d his 10th novel, was published by Little, Brown in 2011. Three of his novels have been made into movies \u2014 \u201cRaney,\u201d\u00a0\u201cWalking Across Egypt\u201d and\u00a0\u201cKiller Diller\u201d \u2014<\/em> and many more have been adapted for the stage.<\/p>\n

Edgerton is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington.\u00a0Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctorates from UNC-Asheville and St. Andrews Presbyterian College, membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the North Carolina Award for Literature.<\/p>\n

Raised in the community of Bethesda, near Durham, Edgerton has written about small-town bigotry, religious hypocrisy and greed \u2014 three of his most important themes \u2014 in a darkly comic style, one comparable to that of Flannery O\u2019Conner, according to Daniel Wallace, J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot since Mark Twain has the South been blessed with a comic novelist as important as Clyde Edgerton,\u201d said Wallace. \u201cHis voice is unmistakable: at once eloquent and down-home, hilarious and heartfelt, satirical and solemn.\u201d<\/p>\n

The annual lecture and prize in the College of Arts and Sciences honor Thomas Wolfe, author of \u201cLook Homeward, Angel,\u201d who graduated from Carolina in 1920.<\/p>\n

Edgerton\u2019s talk is free and open to the public. The Genome Sciences Building auditorium is located at 250 Bell Tower Rd.<\/p>\n

For more information see: http:\/\/englishcomplit.unc.edu\/wolfe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beloved North Carolina author will receive prize named in honor of UNC alumnus Thomas Wolfe, author of \u2018Look Homeward, Angel\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-arts-humanities","category-undergraduate-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47358,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions\/47358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}