Family of earth : a Southern mountain childhood / Wilma Dykeman ; foreword by Robert Morgan.
Chronicles the childhood of writer and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman.
Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and social justice. And yet, for her words' remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as raw and vital. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in Asheville, she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of her family's fortunes, plotting their rise and fall in uncertain economic times and ending with her father's sudden death in 1934 when she was fourteen years old.
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- ISBN: 9781469629148
- ISBN: 1469629143
- ISBN: 9781469630540
- ISBN: 1469630540
- Physical Description: xxiii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This book was published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Dykeman, Wilma. Authors, American > North Carolina > Biography. Asheville (N.C.) > Biography. Asheville (N.C.) > History. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Government and Heritage Library | 928.1 D996f (Text) | 33091008108185 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Government and Heritage Library | 928.1 D996f (Text) | 33091008108110 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | B DYKEMAN (Text) | 39493108027469 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | NC B Dykeman (Text) | 34269001181271 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | B DYKEMAN (Text) | 50503300415900 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 06/04/2025 |
| Black Mountain Library | B DYKEMAN (Text) | 0020513706901 | Adult Nonfiction Display | Available | - |
| Canton Library | NC B Dykeman (Text) | 33115007659208 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 05/18/2025 |
| Cleveland County Main Library | B DYKEMAN (Text) | 22281500131487 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | B DYKEMAN (Text) | 0020511214643 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 05/14/2025 |
| Eden Library | NCB Dykeman (Text) | 31554010114907 | Local History Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
Chronicles the childhood of writer and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman.
Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and social justice. And yet, for her words' remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as raw and vital. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in Asheville, she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of her family's fortunes, plotting their rise and fall in uncertain economic times and ending with her father's sudden death in 1934 when she was fourteen years old.
Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and social justice. And yet, for her words' remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as raw and vital. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in Asheville, she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of her family's fortunes, plotting their rise and fall in uncertain economic times and ending with her father's sudden death in 1934 when she was fourteen years old.
