Paul Green - by Georgann Eubanks & Margaret Bauer (Paperback)

About the Book

This anthology examines the life and selected works of North Carolina's most distinguished playwright of the 20th century, Paul Green (1894-1981).

Book Synopsis

This anthology examines the life and selected works of North Carolina's most distinguished playwright of the 20th century, Paul Green (1894-1981).

Paul Green is best known for his outdoor historical dramas, which are still performed across the United States. However, he was not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, but was also an activist committed to human rights, racial equity, prison reform, and ending the death penalty. This anthology includes frank reflections from an award-winning array of contemporary North Carolina writers. Their essays about Green's work and relationships are meant to launch new conversations about a man who was seen as progressive, even radical, in his time. Included writers: Margaret Bauer, Jim Grimsley, Lynden Harris, Marjorie Hudson, Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Jill McCorkle, Ray Owen, Phillip Shabazz, Mike Wiley, ​​and others.

Review Quotes

"Not only a welcome addition to our state's and the South's literary history, it is an absolutely necessary one. This is as thoughtful and bountiful a collage of critiques of Green, a pioneer in the southern literary renascence of the past century, and his world of fellow writers and collaborators (Richard Wright! Kurt Weill!) as one is ever likely to see, and the work is just as challenging as it is broadening."-Bland Simpson, author of North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky

"Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright gathers essayists of grace and tremendous precision who remap the literary terrain of Paul Green through well informed, detailed explorations of his craft, artistic life, and political mission. This blended compilation of informative essays represents deep thought, vigorous analysis, and offers a multitude of perspectives and insights that present new thoughtful questions for reimagining the work of Paul Green."--Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate

About the Author

Georgann Eubanks is a writer, Emmy-winning documentarian, and popular speaker. She is the author of Saving the WIld South, The Month of Their Ripening, Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, and Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains. She is Executive Director of the Paul Green Foundation and lives in Carrboro, NC.

Margaret D. Bauer is the Rives Chair of Southern Literature in the Department of English at East Carolina University, a Distinguished Professor of Harriot College of Arts and Science, and the editor of the North Carolina Literary Review. She is the recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities.