Books in the Blue Ridge
Everywhere you turn in the Carolina Blue Ridge mountains there are amazing stories and storytellers. Majestic mountain views, peaceful pastoral country scenery and small town charm seem to be torn from the pages of such authors as Thomas Wolfe and Carl Sandburg, who had homes in the region, as well as frequent visitors: Ernest Hemingway, F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and O. Henry.The Carolina Blue Ridge literary trail is a winding path that passes through Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain to Jan Karon’s “Mitford” novels. The mountains are filled with quaint book shops that offer the works of these and several other local authors, each with a special story to tell.
