Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ASHEVILLE - From "The French Broad" by Wilma Dykeman to "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary ...

Living in North Carolina, Novelist David Joy writes about a place "misunderstood." Novelist David Joy ("Where All Light Tends to Go") lives deep in the Blue Ridge mountains of Jackson County, N.C. But ...

David Joy’s unflinching look at those who live in the Appalachian area of western North Carolina takes another unconventional spin in “The Line That Held Us.” Joy’s mysteries aren’t about cops or ...

Novelist David Joy grew up in rural North Carolina, in a community plagued by poverty. He speaks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his people's struggle to be heard by wider society. Novelist David ...

The morning broke cool and crisp that Monday in December when David Joy turned 40, and he naturally was feeling reflective. It had been 10 years since he signed the contract for his first novel, ...

ASHEVILLE - From "The French Broad" by Wilma Dykeman to "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary award has sought to bring attention to the literature of Western North ...