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"Paul Green (1894-1981) is best known for his outdoor historical dramas, which are still performed across the United States. In North Carolina, The Lost Colony remains a must-do event on a trip to the Outer Banks. Green 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 the frank reflections from an array of award-winning contemporary North Carolina writers. Their essays about Green's work and relationships will launch new conversations about a man who was seen as progressive, even radical in his time" --
List of contents
- Foreword - Georgann Eubanks
- Give Me Water: Paul Green’s “Hymn to the Rising Sun” - Mike Wiley
- Leaning Toward the Light - Lynden Harris
- “That Better Way to Find”: Adapting Paul Green's Antiwar Play, Johnny Johnson - Debra Kaufman
- Problems of the Hero: The Many Endings of Native Son - Ian Finley
- Landing in a New World - Talmadge Ragan
- We Are Still Here - Synora Cummings
- Love is the Soul of Man - Marjorie Hudson
- Epilogue - Margaret Bauer
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.
Summary
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.
Foreword
- Three-city tour featuring editors and contributors
- Editors are both prominent in NC writers circles, and an extensive write-up in NC literary journals is expected.
- Events at UNC Chapel Hill, where Green was a professor
