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Literary North Carolina’s Circle of Writers

North Carolina is the perfect state for a driving vacation and our North Carolina Author Adventures Trail. Since the trail is almost a complete circle, you can make any stop the first and simply keep traveling along the state’s literary loop!

Click any link below for author and place information. (Charlotte has the nearest major airport and is the starting point on the map.)

A. Billy Graham, Charlotte
B. Charles Chesnutt, Fayetteville
C. Dr. John Hope Franklin, Durham
D. O. Henry, Greensboro
E. Adelaide Fries, Winston-Salem
F. Andy Griffith, Mount Airy
G. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Asheville
H. Thomas Wolfe, Asheville
I. Carl Sandburg, Flat Rock