Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State’s Most Celebrated Playwright

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.

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.