Bibliographies

Brosi, George. Contemporary Appalachian Writers. Berea, KY: Appalachian Mountain Books, 1987. 72-5; 1988. 16-17.

Jones, Chip. "A Wilma Dykeman Bibliography." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 33-6.

Jones, Oliver K. Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman, with a primary and secondary bibliography of her work. M.A. Thesis. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1989.

Ross, Charlotte T., Ed. Bibliography of Southern Appalachia. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium P, 1976. 68.

Sebok, Scott J. "Wilma Dykeman - A Bibliography." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 29.4 (Summer 2002): 460-92.

 

Audio and Video

Buckner, Sally, et al. North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame 1998 Video 12 min., 10 sec. Raleigh, NC: Humanities Extension Publications, NCSU, 2000. "Continuation of Book TV segment from CSPAN 0008.1018." CSPAN-2 Daily Schedules CSPAN-2. 19 Oct 1998.

 Dykeman, Wilma. African Art Symposium 2 Video 180 min. ea. Knoxville: Museum of Art, U of Tennessee, 24-25 & 29 Oct. 1996.

 -. The Appalachian Novel: Parts I, II, HI, IV, VI. Audio. 9 hours. Berea College [KY], Lectures. 11-14 June 1974. [Cited in Grace Toney Edwards Exploring Appalachia: Exposure to Its Culture. Berea, KY: Berea College and the U of Kentucky, 1974. 19.]

-. An Evening with Wilma Dykeman Video 52 min. Radford, VA: Radford Telecommunications Bureau, Radford U, 23 June 1992.

-. An Evening with Wilma Dykeman, November 16, 1993 Video 45 min. Jefferson City, TN: Carson-Newman College, Center for Educational Service to Appalachia, 1993.

-. The Tall Woman: A Commentary by Wilma Dykeman Video 33 min. Newport,TN: Wakestone, 1989.

-. Teaching Appalachian Culture through High School English Classes Audio 2 cass. 60 min. ea. Charleston, WV: Morris Harvey College, 1970, 1979.

-. Tell it on the Mountain: Appalachian Women Writers Audio. Whitesburg, KY: WMMT-FM, Appalshop, 1995.

-. Thomas Wolfe Remembered Video 60 min. Radford, VA: Radford Telecommunications Bureau, Radford U, 1981.

-. Wilma Dykeman, Prose Reading Video 60 min. Radford, VA: Telecommunications Bureau, Radford U, 1983.

-. A Writer's Life: it began with The French Broad Video 90 min. Brevard, NC: Brevard College, 21 Jan 1993.

Dykeman, Wilma, Harriette Arnow, and Jim Stokely. Appalachian Writers Video. 60 min. Oak Ridge, TN: Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, July-Oct 1979.

Dykeman, Wilma, Edye Ellis, and Bill Williams. The Evening of the 17th: Bicentennial Celebration of the United States Constitution Video 54 min. Knoxville, TN: WBIR TV, 17 Sept 1987.

Dykeman, Wilma, et al. North Carolinian Society Award, 16 June 2001 Video 2 hr. 3 min. Raleigh: North Carolina Society, 16 June 2001.

Dykeman, Wilma, Parks Lanier, and Grace Edwards. On Line Video 50 min. Radford, VA: Telecommunications Bureau, Radford U, 1983.

Dykeman, Wilma and Harold D. Moser. "Why Three Presidents from Tennessee" and Harold Moser on the Jackson Papers Project Video. 90 mins. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 16 Apr 1989. [<http://www.tennesseehistory.org>.]

Dykeman, Wilma and Richard Marius. Local Color: A Conversation Between Wilma Dykeman and Richard Marius Audio 1 cass. 48 min. Knoxville: U of Tenn., Dept. of TV Services, June 1978. [Transcript available: "Local Color: A Conversation Between Wilma Dykeman and Richard Marius." Tennessee Librarian Ed. Joan Worley. 31.3 (Winter 1979): 22-34.]

Dykeman, Wilma, Jim Wayne Miller, and Loyal Jones. Appalachia in Perspective: A Faculty Seminar 4 Video 45 min. ea. Knoxville: U of Tennessee, 12 May 1983.

Dykeman, Wilma and Ross Spears. "The Electric Valley." Independent Focus 2 Video 50 min. ea. Dir./Prod. Ross Spears, Narr. Wilma Dykeman. New York: Du Art Video, 1985; Johnson City, TN: The James Agee Film Project, 1990.

Dykeman, Wilma and J.J. Wilson. "Wilma Dykeman." New Voices from the South Video 1 hr 29 min. Rohnert Park, CA: Dept of English, Sonoma State U, 8 Mar 1995.

Higgs, Robert J. Transcendentalism in the Hills: Three Appalachian Novelists Video 50 min. Radford, VA: Telecommunications Bureau, Radford U, 1981.

James Agee Teleconference Video 83 min. Host: Wilma Dykeman. Knoxville: College of Liberal Arts, U of Tennessee and Statewide Division of Continuing Education, 30 Mar 1989.

Lanier, Parks, Prod. "A Conversation with Wilma Dykeman." Video 52 min. Highland Summer Conference Radford, VA: Radford U Telecommunications Bureau, 1992.

News 13 This Morning WLOS-TV. 3 May 2001.

"Southern Festival of Books." CSPAN-2 Daily Schedules CSPAN-2. 17 Oct 1998.

"Southern Festival of Books." CSPAN-2 Daily Schedules CSPAN-2. 18 Oct 1998.

"Wilma Dykeman." CSPAN-2 Daily Schedules CSPAN-2. 17 Oct 1998.

 

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Biographical and Obituaries

1998 Induction Ceremony, May 16, 1998: Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Writers' Network, 1998.

Biography Index: A Cumulative Index to Biographical Material in Books and Magazines. Ed. Bea Joseph. Vol. 4 (Sept 1955-Aug 1958). New York: H.W. Wilson, 1960. 236. Also Vol. 7 (Sept 1964-Aug 1967) Ed. Rita Volmer Louis, 1968. 188; and Vol. 20 (Sept 1994-Aug 1995) Ed. Charles R. Cornell, 1995. 123.

Ausley, Judy. "A Tall and Gentle Woman." Appalachian Literature: History, Humor, and Culture 60 (August/September 2002): 32.

"Bonnie Dykeman." Asheville Citizen 20 Jan 1992: 4B. Borland, Carol J., ed. Directory of American Scholars. 8th ed. Vol. 1. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1982. 203.

Chown, Ramona. "Wilma Dykeman: Wallace Stegner of the Southeast." Hemlocks and Balsams 10 (1990): 17-19.

Dellinger, Paul. "Wilma Dykeman: The Tall Woman." Carolina Senior Citizen. 2.13 (May 1989): 1+.

Doar, Harriet. "They Double Their Fun In Writing." Charlotte Observer 31 Oct 1965: 2F.

"Dykeman lived her life for 'mighty' purposes." Asheville Citizen-Times 24 Dec 2006: 4B.

"Dykeman, Wilma." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Vol. 1. Ed. Ann Evory. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1981. 171-2.

"Education and Criticism." Appalachia Inside Out Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 621-2.

Ehle, John. "From John Ehle." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 32.

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1990. 322-3. Foremost Women in Communications. New York: Foremost Americans Publishing, 1970. 183.

Ellison, Quintin. "Author an early advocate for social equality, land stewardship." Asheville Citizen-Times 24 Dec 2006: 4A.

-. "Dykeman buried in the land she loved." Asheville Citizen-Times 30 Dec 2006: 1B.

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Fox, Margalit. "Wilma Dykeman, 86, A Writer on the Environment and Race, Dies." New York Times 29 Dec 2006: 7B.

Glendenning, Karin. "Historian Dykeman To Address Conference." Chattanooga Times 11 Apr 1999: J6.

"Historical News and Notices: Personal." Journal of Southern History 22.3 (Aug 1956): 404.

Hodges, Ed. "Honoring Dykeman in Asheville." The Herald-Sun [Durham, NC] 26 June 2001: C4.

Hoyle, Bernadette. Tar Heel Writers I Know. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1956. 56-9.

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Leidig, Dan. "pro tempore." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 2.

"Meet the Author: Wilma Dykeman (1920-)." Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina. Ed. Sally Buckner. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1991. 118.

Neufeld, Rob. "The World of Wilma Dykeman." Asheville Citizen Times 29 July 2001: Bl, B7.

The North Carolina Awards, 1985. Raleigh: North Carolina Awards Committee, 1985.

The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame proudly presents Wilma Dykeman, 1920-: Writer & Historian, Asheville, North Carolina. Carrboro: North Carolina Writers' Network, 1998. [brochure for presentation ceremony]

"Novelist Plans Talks on Appalachian Women." Asheville [NC] Citizen-Times 4 Feb 1979: 1-L.

Parshalle, Eve. The Kashmir Bridge-women. Los Angeles: Oxford P, 1965. 145-6.

Powell, William. North Carolina Lives: The Tar Heel Who's Who. Hopkinsville, KY: Historical Record Society, 1962. 1169.

Ragan, Sam, Fred Chappell, Patricia M. Gantt, and H.G. Jones. "Tributes to Wilma Dykeman." Pembroke Magazine 25 (1992): 117-29.

Smith, Lee. "From Lee Smith." The Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 23.

"Southerner on the Grow: Wilma Dykeman—She Casts A Tall Shadow." Southern Living 1.5 (June 1966): 74.

"Stokely, Wilma Dykeman 1920-." Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and their Works. Eds. James M. Ethridge and Barbara Kopala. First Revision series. Vols. 1-4. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1967. 913.

Symmes, Kirland. "The Tall Woman." The Mountain Express 13, 17 Jan 2007. Accessed 23 May 2007. <http://www.mountainx.com/opinion/2007/0110dykeman.php>.

Waggoner, Martha. "Writer's life has come full circle." Raleigh [NC] News & Observer 21 Sept 1999: 3A.

-. "Wilma Dykeman: A Writer Ahead of Her Times." The Associated Press State & Local Wire [Asheville, NC] 18 Sept 1999.

Warren, John and Adrian W. McClaren. Tennessee Belles-Lettres: A Guide to Tennessee Literature. Morristown, TN: Morrison Printing, 1977. 3, 5-6, 14-17.

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Who's Who in the South and Southwest.® [Marquis(tm)] 14th-16th ed. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1975-77. Also 24th-25th ed. New Providence, NJ: Marquis, 1995-98.

Who's Who in the World.® [Marquis(tm)] 14th ed, 1997. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 1996.

Who's Who of American Women.® [Marquis(tm)] lst-2nd ed. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1958-62. Also 8th-10th ed., 1973-78; 13th-16th ed. 1983-90; 20th- 21st ed., 1996-2000; 22nd ed., 2001.

"Wilma Dykeman." American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Ed. Lina Mainiero. Vol. 1. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979. 555-7.

-. American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Ed. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf. 2nd ed. Vol 1. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.

"Wilma Dykeman (1920-)." A Southern Appalachian Reader. Eds. Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1988. 402.

"Wilma Dykeman is Awarded Fellowship For Research." Asheville Citizen-Times 21 Mar 1976. [Discusses WD's Guggenheim fellowship.]

"Wilma Dykeman to speak." Johnson City Press-Chronicle 10 Jan 1977: 6. [WD as guest speaker at The Friends of the Mayne Williams Library; bio.]

The Writers Directory. 3rd-4th ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1976-82. Also 5th-10th ed. Detroit: GaleResearch, 1981-94; llth-12th ed. Detroit: St. James, 1994-98.

Young, Perry Deane. "Of Time and the Writer." Our State 68.5 (Oct 2000): 48-52.

Young, Thomas Daniel. Tennessee Writers. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1981. 108- 9.

 

Interviews

Dykeman, Wilma. "The Appalachian Personality: Beginning a Series of Five Interviews with Prominent Appalachians." With Ron Larson. Appalachian Heritage 11.1 (1983): 30-40.

-. "An Asheville Author Talks Shop." With Bernadette Hoyle. Raleigh News and Observer 15 Aug 1954, sec. iv: 5.

-. "A Conversation: From an interview recorded at Emory & Henry College, November 5, 1986." With John Ehle. Iron Mountain Review 3.2 (Spring 1987): 6-11. [ Reprinted in Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations Writers from the Mountain South. ed. John Lang. U of Tennessee Press: Knoxville, 2006.]

-. "Dykeman Resents Regional Label." Louisville Courier-Journal 29 Apr 1973.

-. "Interview with Wilma Dykeman: Connecting, Making Choices." Appalachian Journal 29.4 (2002): 444-458.

-. "Interview." Durham Morning Herald 17 Sept 1962: 5D.

-. "Lady of Letters: At Home with Wilma Dykeman Stokely." With Barbara Aston-Wash. Knoxville News-Sentinel 6 Apr 1986: El.

-. "A MELUS Interview: Wilma Dykeman." With Danny Miller. MELUS 9.3 (Winter 1982): 45-59. [Cited in Narda Lacey Schwartz. Articles on Women Writers, Vol. 2, 1976-1984: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1986. 82.]

-. "One of God's Thoroughbreds." With Nell Mohney. Chattanooga Free Press 24 Aug 1997: 15. [Discusses death of WD's husband, James Stokely.]

-. "Personal Interview." 17 Jan 1975. In Martha Kiser Moore, The Appalachia of Wilma Dykeman's Fiction. M.A. Thesis. Johnson City: East Tennessee State U, 1975.

-. "Personal Interview." 22 Jan 1990. In Linda Rich Nash, The Presence of Land in the Novels by Wilma Dykeman. M.A. Thesis. Cookeville: Tennessee Tech U, 1992.

-. "The Rooted Heart and the Ranging Intellect: A Conversation." With Richard Marius. Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 8-13. [ Reprinted in Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations Writers from the Mountain South. ed. John Lang. U of Tennessee Press: Knoxville, 2006.]

-. "Southern Politics, 1990-1992." Southern Oral History Program Collection 4007.Series A.2: Interviewees A-J. Southern Oral History Program. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992. [To view: http://www.sohp.org/.]

-. "Wilma Dykeman: An Interview." With Sandra Ballard. Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 6.2 (Summer 1989): 18-20.

Dykeman, Wilma and Richard Marius. "Local Color: A Conversation Between Wilma Dykeman and Richard Marius." With Joan Worley, Tennessee Librarian 31.3 (Winter 1979): 22-34.

 

Literature

Banner, Laura Leslie. The North Carolina Mountaineer in Native Fiction. Diss. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1984.

Clark, Burton R., ed. "Part Two: The Black and the Poor." The Problems of American Education. Ed. and Intro. Burton R. Clark. New York: New Viewpoints, 1975. 47-9. [Mentions Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely. "Integration: Third and Critical Phase" as reviewing the six years after school segregation is outlawed, 48. Also includes WD and JS's article, 56-68.].

Combs, Myra Lynne. From hushed children to esteemed elders: acquistion of voice in Appalachian women. M.A. Thesis. Radford, VA: Radford U, 2001.

Davis, Cynthia J. and Kathryn West, eds. Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History. New York: Oxford UP, 1996. 311, 320, 341. [Briefly discusses The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth.}

Edwards, Grace Toney. Exploring Appalachia: Exposure to Its Culture— Outcroppings from the Appalachian Studies Workshop Offered by Berea College and the University of Kentucky. Berea, KY: Berea College Appalachian Center, 1974. [Mentions themes of time and place in WD's novels in "A Sample of Suggested Research Topics," 10; cites The Far Family, Return the Innocent Earth, and The Tall Woman, 5; The French Broad, 10; The Border States, 13; Southern Appalachian Books: An Annotated, Selected Bibliography, 14; The Appalachian Novel, Parts, I, II, III, IV, VI, 19.]

Engelhardt, Elizabeth. “Nature-Loving Souls and Appalachian Mountains.” An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Eds. Danny Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 337-352.

-. The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.

-. “Wilma Dykeman and the Women of Appalachia: The Ecology of Mid-Century Environmental Activism.” Women’s Studies Quarterly. 29, no. 1 (2001): 155-169.

Farr, Sidney Saylor. Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1981. 8, 52-3, 111, 164. [Briefly discusses Look to This Day, The Tall Woman, The Far Family, Return the Innocent Earth, Tennessee Women, Past and Present, and Martha Riser Moore's thesis "The Appalachia of Wilma Dykeman's Fiction."]

Gage, Jim. "Place in the Fiction of Wilma Dykeman." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 3-7. [Discusses The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth.}

Ganim, Carol. "Herself: Woman and Place in Appalachian Literature." Appalachian Journal 13.3 (Spring 1986): 264-6. [Discusses Return the Innocent Earth, The Tall Woman, and The Far Family.}

Gantt, Patricia M. "Appalachia in context: Wilma Dykeman's search for the Souths." Dissertation Abstracts International. 54.4 (Oct 1992): 1363A; Diss. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1993.

-. “Casting a Long Shadow: The Tall Woman.” An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Eds. Danny Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 91-103.

-. "Creating a New Mythos: Retooling the Literary Image of Appalachian Women." Div. on Writers of the Modern South. NEMLA Convention. Hartford, CT. Unpublished paper. Presented 6 Apr 1991.

-. “A Mutual Journey: Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian Regionalism.” Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women’s Regional Writings. Eds. Sherrie A Inness and Diana Royer. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. 197-215.

-. "'The Price of Honey': Environmental Issues in Wilma Dykeman's Fiction."Appalachian Studies Conference. Unpublished paper. Presented 24 Mar 1990.

-. "Taking the Cake: Power Politics in Southern Life and Fiction." Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food. Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. Oxford, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001: 63-85. [Discusses The Tall Woman and The Far Family.}

-. "Wilma Dykeman's North Carolina." Panel: "What Is a Woman's Language?" North Carolina Women Writers Conference. Unpublished paper. Presented 14 Mar 1992.

-. "Wilma Dykeman's Tall Women: Challenging the Stereotypes." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 14-16, 21-5. [Discusses The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth.]

Gantt, Patricia M. and Chip Jones. "Wilma Dykeman (1920-)." Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South. Eds. Robert Bain and Joseph M. Flora. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 128-35.

Grouse-Powers, Amy Joy. Ecofeminist Theory and Appalachian Literature: a praxis? M.A. Thesis. Radford, VA: Radford U, 1995.

Jentsch, Nancy and Danny Miller. “Lighting the Fuse: Wilma Dykeman and Sharon McCrumb as Appalachian ‘Activists.’” Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 75 – 94.

Jones, Chip. "Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 26-32. [Discusses race relations in Neither Black nor White, The Border States, The Far Family, and The Tall Woman; and environmentalism in The Border States, The French Broad, The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth].

Jones, Oliver King. Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman, with a primary and secondary bibliography of her work. M.A. Thesis. Chapel Hill: UNC, 1989.

-. “Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman.” An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Eds. Danny Miller, Sharon Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 73-90.

McGhee, Joyce Hedrick. The Appalachian Feminist Vision of Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman. M.A. Thesis. Radford, VA: Radford U, 1992.

Miller, Danny L. Wingless Flights: Appalachia Women in Fiction. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996.

Miller, Jim Wayne. "From Jim Wayne-Miller." Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 36. [Mentions The French Broad, The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth.]

Moore, Martha Kiser. The Appalachia of Wilma Dykeman's Fiction. M.A. Thesis. Johnson City: East Tennessee State U, 1975; College Library, 1979. [Includes Personal Interview," 17 Jan 1975.]

Nash, Linda Rich. The Presence of Land in the Novels by Wilma Dykeman. M.A. Thesis. Cookeville: Tennessee Tech U, 1992. [Includes "Interview": Knoxville, 22 Jan 1990.]

Nelson, Sherri Leigh. The Space They Love: Reconstruction in the Works of Appalachian and African-American Women Writers. M.A. Thesis. Radford, VA: Radford U, 1997.

Ross, Charlotte. "Industrialization and the Attrition of Mountain Characteristics: A Fictional Study." Appalachian Literature: Critical Essays. Comp. and Ed. Ruel E. Foster. Charleston, WV: Morris Harvey College (MHC) Publications, 1976. 45-56. [Also in Appalachia Inside Out Vol. 1. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995. 203-13. [Discusses The Far Family and other works.]

Smith, Sam B., ed. Tennessee History: A Bibliography. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1974. 8, 236, 251, 286, 315-16, 321. [Cites The Border States: Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia under heading "One-Volume General Histories and School Text"; The French Broad under heading "General History to I860"; "Too Much Talent in Tennessee" under heading "General History: 1900-1972"; Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years ofW.D. Weatherford, Neither Black nor White, Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander, and cites "Hopeful Dialogue of the Races" under heading "General History: 1900-72"; The Tall Woman and The Far Family under heading "Social and Cultural Life in Fiction"; WD's "Courage in Action in Clinton, Tennessee," "Clinton, Tennessee: A Town on Trial," and "The South' in the North" under heading "School Desegregation Problems of the 1950s."]

Walser, Richard. Literary North Carolina: A Brief Historical Survey. Raleigh, NC: Dept of Archives and History, NC Dept of Cultural Resources, 1970. 45-6, 112. [Briefly discusses The French Broad, The Tall Woman, and The Far Family].

-. Literary North Carolina: A Historical Survey, Revised and Enlarged. Raleigh, NC: Dept of Archives and History, NC Dept of Cultural Resources, 1986. 39-40, 41, 118, 145. [Briefly discusses The French Broad, The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth]

Walser, Richard and Mary Reynolds Peacock. Young Readers' Picturebook of Tar Heel Writers. 3rd ed. Raleigh: NC Dept of Cultural Resources, Archives and History, 1966. 64. Also 4th ed. (1975), 64. [Mentions The French Broad, Return the Innocent Earth, and Look to This Day.}

Ward, Doris Cline, Ed. The Heritage of Old Buncombe County. Winston-Salem, NC: Hunter Publishing, 1981; Asheville, NC: The Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society, 1981. 1, 23, 282, 342-3. [Refers to The Tall Woman, The Far Family, and Return the Innocent Earth]

West, Carroll Van, Ed. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill, 1998. 270. [Summarizes Dykeman's novels and a short biography.]

Williams, John A. Appalachia: A History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Women in Southern Literature: An Index. Comp. Patricia Sweeney. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 65. [Describes Lydia McQueen, from The Tall Woman and The Far Family.]

 

Book Review and Articles (ordered by date of book)

 

The French Broad (1955) by Wilma Dykeman

Blakesley, Richard. Rev. of The French Broad. Chicago Sunday Tribune 8 May 1955: 6. ["The French Broad has a romantic, exciting past and a promising future and Wilma Dykeman has lavished love and care on its chronicle."]

Daniels, Jonathan. Rev. of The French Broad. 30 Apr 1955. Walser Papers #4168. Dee, Ivan R. Rev. of The French Broad. New York Times 8 Sept 1974: sec. vii, 30-33.

Foell, Earl W. "Of Wolfe and the River: The French Broad." Rev. of The French Broad. Christian Science Monitor 5 May 1955: 11. ["For a river that is largely unnavigable for commercial purposes, the French Broad has had a surprisingly rich history."]

"French Broad River May Get Historic Status, Asheville." News & Record [Greensboro, NC] 3 May 1997: B2C. [Mentions Dykeman as secret weapon in river's achieving historic status.]

Gantt, Patricia M. "'A Mutual Journey': Wilma Dykeman and Appalachian Regionalism." Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing. Eds. Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997. 197-215.

Hill, Karen Nazor. "Crowd Rewards First Things First for Its Positive Deeds." Chattanooga Times 23 May 1999: F3. [Mentions WD's speech at James W. Livingood American Spirit Award Lecture and trouble with getting The French Broad published.]

Howell, Isabel. "The French Broad, by Wilma Dykeman." Rev. essay. Journal of Southern History 23.3 (Aug 1957): 377-9.

Inness, Sherrie A. and Diana Royer, eds. "Introduction." Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997. 7, 11, 13. [Mentions The French Broad.}

Johnson, Gerald W. "Tragic Charm of That River Called the French Broad." Rev. of The French Broad. NY Herald-Tribune Book Review 1 May 1955: 3. ["One of the more distinguished volumes in the 'Rivers of America' series. One reason is that the mountaineers ... are an extremely salty population; the other is that the publishers chose ... an author with an extremely clear idea of what she was about."]

Livingood, James W. Rev. of The French Broad. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 14.3 (Sept 1955): 278-9.

Marshall, J.D. Rev. of The French Broad. Library Journal 15 Apr 1955: 869. ["Not the least of the book's many fine qualities is its high readability. Enthusiastically recommended."]

McCoy, George. "Beautiful French Broad River." Rev. of The French Broad. Asheville Citizen-Times 2.9 May 1955: D2.

"Miss Dykeman's French Broad Book Matches Flow and Beauty of River." Rev. of The French Broad. Asheville Citizen 24 Apr 1955: D3.

"Paying Our Debts." Interview with Wayne McDevitt. Raleigh News & Observer 7 Sept 1997: A21. [Mentions The French Broad in relation to NC's environmental challenges in the next three years.]

Pinsky, Mark I. "American Album: The Abridgment of Madison County, N.C.: For Four Decades, The Ponder Clan Ruled the Region as a Virtual Fiefdom, but a Recent Voter Revolution has the 'Dictatorship' in Steady Decline." Los AngelesTimes 25 Apr 1994: A5. [Quotes The French Broad: Appalachia as a "confusion of contrasts."]

Prescott, Orville. Rev. of The French Broad. New York Times 17 May 1955: 27.

"The Professor and the Hunter." Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina, Teacher's Resource Guide. Ed. Sally Buckner. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic P, 1991. 48-51. [Provides a teaching plan for "The Professor and the Hunter," an excerpt from The French Broad.]

Rev. of The French Broad. Asheville Citizen 11 May 1955: 4. Rev. of The French Broad. Booklist 15 June 1955: 423. ["A historical-descriptive sketch of the river important in the life of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. The competent anecdotal narration makes the book interesting general reading."]

Rev. of The French Broad. Georgia Historical Quarterly 39.4 (1955): 412-13.

Rev. of The French Broad. Journal of Southern History 32.4 (Nov 1966): 9.

Rev. of The French Broad. Kirkus 1 Mar 1955: 197.

Smethurst, Margarette Wood. Rev. of The French Broad. Raleigh News and Observer II My 1955:8.

Snyder, Charles Lee. "River, Land and People." Rev. of The French Broad. New York Times Book Review 10 July 1955: 14. ["... based on first-hand knowledge and much research, ... an informative arid entertaining piece of work."]

Steelman, Ben. "The Essential N.C. reading list: Compiling the finest Carolina literary works is an undertaking, but there's no shortage of great writing." Sunday Star-News [Wilmington, NC] 19 Mar 2000: ID, 3D. [Cites The French Broad, 3D.]

Voiles, Jan. Rev. of The French Broad. San Francisco Chronicle 31 July 1955: 19.

Waage, Fred. "Teaching Environmental Literature in Southern Appalachia."Appalachia Inside Out Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 674-81. [Mentions Dykeman's work as advocating a consensual law for the river's preservation, 679.]

Walser, Richard. "French Broad: State's Bow in the 'Rivers of America Series.'" Rev. of The French Broad. Raleigh News and Observer 8 May 1955, sec. iv: 5.

Whitman, Alden. "A River Called the French Broad." Rev. of The French Broad. Saturday Review 8 Oct 1955: 31.

Woody, Robert H. Rev. of The French Broad. South Atlantic Quarterly 55 (1956): 397-8.

 

Neither Black Nor White (1957) by Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely

Bogardus, Emory S. Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Sociology & Social Research 43.3 (Jan-Feb 1959): 227-8.

Brosi, George. The Multi-Ethnic Heritage of the Southern Appalachian Region: a selective, annotated bibliography. Berea, KY: G. Brosi, 1995. [Mentions circumstances of composition of Neither Black Nor White.]

Catton, Bruce. Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Walser Papers #4168.

Cotner, Robert C. Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. North Carolina Historical Review 35 (1958): 489-91.

DeLamotte, Roy C. Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Journal of Negro Education 27A (Autumn 1958): 491-2.

Ethridge, Mark, Jr. "Dixie's Temper." Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Saturday Review 30 Nov 1957: 32-3.

Lee, Ulysses. Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Journal of Negro History 43.2 (Apr 1958): 151-2.

Leffall, Dolores C. and Doris M. Hull. "Current Literature on Negro Education." Journal of Negro Education 27.2 (Spring 1958): 171-181. [Ref. to Neither Black Nor White, 173.]

Lindau, Betsy. Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Asheville Citizen-Times 8 Dec 1957: B9.

McGill, Ralph. "At Journey's End No Shining Gate." Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. New York Times Book Review 8 Dec 1957: 7.

"The Profession: Reports and Opinion." American Sociological Review 26.6 (Dec 1961): 959-1005. [CitesNeither Black Nor White, 961.]

Record, Jane Cassels. "There are Many Souths, and They are Changing Fast." Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Phylon 19 (1958): 126.

-. Herald-Tribune Book Review 1 Dec 1957: 3. Robinson, Charles K. "Southern Views on Integration."

Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Asheville Citizen-Times 2 Feb 1958: D2.

Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo. "Explosion in the South: Neither Black Nor White, by Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely." Southwest Review 43.2 (Spring 1958): 173-6.

Schroetter, Hilda Noel. "New Picture of South Termed 'Product of True Artistry.'" Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Durham Morning Herald 1 Dec 1957: D5.

Snider, William D. "Race Relations." Rev. of Neither Black Nor White. Greensboro Daily News 31 Aug 1958: D3.

Williams, Frank B. "Neither Black Nor White." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 17.1 (Mar 1958): 75-8.

"Who's Who: Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely." New York Times 14 Apr 1996: sec. vi, 52. [Mentions Hillman Award winner for best book published in America on civil liberties, race relations, or world peace.]

 

Seed's of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander (1962) by Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely

Bodger, John C. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Library Journal 87 (1 June 1962): 2129.

Clark, James McClure. "The Stokelys Write About Dr. Alexander." Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Asheville Citizen 19 Aug 1962: D2.

Durden, Robert F. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. South Atlantic Quarterly 62.1 (Winter 1963): 139-40.

Franklin, John Hope. "The Great Confrontation: The South and the Problem of Change." The Journal of Southern History 38.1 (Feb 1972): 3-20. [Cites Seeds of Southern Change, 15.]

Govan, Gilbert E. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 21 (Dec 1962): 388-9.

Grantham, Dewey W., Jr. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. American Historical Review 68 (1962-63): 560-1.

Haselden, Kyle. "'Dr. Will.'" Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Christian Century 80 (6 Feb 1963): 174.

Hemmingway, Theodore. "Prelude to Change: Black Carolinians in the War Years, 1914-1920." Journal of Negro History 65.3 (Summer 1980): 212-227. [Refers to Seeds of Southern Change, 226.]

Johnson, Guion Griffis. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Journal of Negro Education 31.4 (Autumri 1962): 484-7.

McGill, Ralph. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Raleigh News and Observer 20 May 1962, sec. vi: 9.

O'Brien, Michael. "C. Vann Woodward and the Burden of Southern Liberalism." The American Historical Review 78.3 (June 1973): 589-604. [Cites Seeds of Southern Change, 593.]

Rable, George C. "The South and the Politics of Antilynching Legislation, 1920-1940." The Journal of Southern History 51.2 (May 1985): 201-220. [Cites Seeds of Southern Change, 208.]

Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Agricultural History 36 (1962): 241.

Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Mississippi Valley Historical Review 49.3 (Dec 1962): 551-2.

Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Virginia Quarterly Review 39.1 (Winter 1963): 27.

Robinson, W. Stitt. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Midcontinent Amercian Studies Journal 4.2 (Fall 1963): 83-4.

Scott, Anne Firor. "After Suffrage: Southern Women in the Twenties." Journal of Southern History 30.3 (Aug 1964): 298-318. [Cites Seeds, 309.]

Sherman, Richard B. "The Harding Administration and the Negro: An Opportunity Lost." Journal of Negro History 49.3 (July 1964): 151-168. [Cites Seeds, 156.]

Silver, James W. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Georgia Historical Quarterly 47 (June 1963): 220-1.

Sitterson, J. Carlyle. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. North Carolina Historical Review 39 (Autumn 1962): 574-5.

-. "The Fourteenth Amendment." Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Times [London] Literary Supplement 21 Dec 1962: 985.

-. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Virginia Quarterly Review 39.1 (Winter 1963): xxvii.

Smith, McNeil. "'Dr. Will'-Some Southern Seeds." Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Raleigh News and Observer 2 Sept 1962, sec. iii: 5.

Wood, Donald. Rev. of Seeds of Southern Change. Race and Class 5.1 (1963): 89-90.

 

The Tall Woman (1962) by Wilma Dykeman

Betts, Doris. "The Long Shadow of a Woman." Rev. of The Tall Woman. Raleigh News and Observer 29 July 1962, sec. iii: 5.

Boger, Lorise C. The Southern Mountaineer in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. Morgantown: West Virginia U, 1964. 23.

Borland, Hal. "Lover of the Land." Rev. of The Tall Woman. New York Times Book Review 3 June 1962: 18.

Bradshaw, Lillian M. Rev. of The Tall Woman. Library Journal 87 (1962): 2397-8.

Brady, Mary L. Rev. of The Tall Woman, by Wilma Dykeman. Extension [Chicago] (Sept 1962): 28.

Broadfoot, Thomas W., ed. North Carolina Fiction, 1958-1971: An Annotated Bibliography. Wendell, NC: Broadfoot's Bookmark, 1972. [Ref. to The Tall Woman, 7.

Chappell, Fred. "From Fred Chappell." Rev. of The Tall Woman. Iron Mountain Review 5.1 (Spring 1989): 13.

Feld, Rose. Rev. of The Tall Woman. New York Herald-Tribune 24 June 1962: 6.

Gage, Jim. "The 'Poetics of Space' in Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman." The Poetics of Appalachian Space. Ed. Parks Lanier, Jr. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991. 67-80.

Gilpin, Pete. Rev. of The Tall Woman, by Wilma Dykeman. Asheville Citizen-Times 24 June 1962: D3.

Govan, Christine N. "Backwash of Civil Strife, Grief Aloof from Hate." Rev. of The Tall Woman, by Wilma Dykeman. Chattanooga Times 8 July 1962: 16.

Hodges, Betty. Rev. of The Tall Woman. Durham Morning-Herald 2 Sept 1962: D5.

Lindberg, Laurie K. "An Ethical Inquiry into the Works of Denise Giardina." Appalachia Inside Out Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U ofTennessee Press, 1995. 664-72. [Mentions WD's protagonist as insisting on the right of "personhood," 668.]

"Lover of the Land." Rev. of The Tall Woman. New York Times 1 July 1962: sec. vii, 18.

"New in Paperback." Rev. of The Tall Woman. Book World [The Washington Post] 13 July 1986: 12.

Pierce, Susan. "On Tap Today." Chattanooga Times 25 July 2000: E2. [Announces Fran Bender's discussion of The Tall Woman at UT-Chattanooga.]

Punneo, Jackie. "On Tap Today." Chattanooga Times 27 July 2000: E6.

Siebel, Julia. Rev. of The Tall Woman. Chicago Sunday Tribune 29 July 1962: 4.

Stanback, Betty Anne. "Long-Suffering Lydia." Rev. of The Tall Woman. Greensboro Daily News 21 Oct 1962: D3.

Stanley, Talmage A. "Bibliography." The Poco Field: Politics, Culture, and Place in Contemporary Appalachia. Diss. Atlanta: Emory U, 1997. 640-98. [Cites The Tall Woman, 658.

Tolosa, Judy. "Arts Campers Shine in Program." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 27 June 1996: 2EM. [Mentions The Tall Woman as in Bicentennial edition of the Tennessee Literary Map.]

Ward, W.H. "The Rush to Find an Appalachian Literature." Appalachian Journal 5.3 (Spring 1978). Rpt. Appalachia Inside Out, Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 623-8. [Mentions The Tall Woman as exploring "Pioneer Woman" myth, 626.]

 

The Far Family (1966) by Wilma Dykeman

Bone, Larry E. Rev. of The Far Family. Library Journal 91 (1 Feb 1966): 713.

Borland, Hal. Rev. of The Far Family. New York Times Book Review 17 June 1966: 12.

"Breakfast, Southern Style." St. Louis Post-Dispatch 30 Apr 1990: IF. [Quotes The Far Family on importance of good country breakfast]

Buckner, Sally. "The Far Family: An Affirmation." Greensboro Daily News 3 Apr 1966: D3.

Drake, Robert. Rev. of The Far Family. Georgia Review 23.1 (1969): 114-15.

Egerton, John. "Southern Comforts: The Superiority of a Good Country Breakfast; Traditions: In Every Corner of the South and in Every Season of the Year, The First Meal of the Day is Rarely Taken Lightly-Some Remembrances from Native Sons and Daughters." Los Angeles Times 3 May 1990: H-40. [Quotes The Farm Family (sic) on importance of good country breakfast]

"Far Family Gripping Story." Rev. of The Far Family. Asheville Citizen-Times 3 Apr 1966: 3D+.

Foster, Dr. Ruel E., ed. Appalachian Literature: Critical Essays. Charleston, WV: Morris Harvey College (MHC) Publications, 1976. [Ref. to The Far Family, 58.]

Hodges, Betty. Rev. of The Far Family. Durham Morning Herald 31 July 1966: 5D+.

Knowles, A. Sidney, Jr. "The Need for Loners: Nine Novels of the Sixties." Southern Review 4.3 (Summer 1968): 817-33.

Linehan, EJ. Rev. of The Far Family. Best Sellers 26 (1 Apr 1966): 9.

Rev. of The Far Family. Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin 62 (1 May 1966): 863.

Rev. of The Far Family. Chicago Sunday Tribune 20 Mar 1966: 6.

Rev. of The Far Family. Kirkus Reviews 33 (15 Dec 1965): 1234.

Rev. of The Far Family. Publishers Weekly 13 Dec 1965: 61.

Smith, Lillian. Rev. of The Far Family. Chicago Tribune 17 June 1966: B12.

Walser, Richard. "Strong People in Family Saga." Rev. of The Far Family. Raleigh News and Observer 27 Mar 1966, sec. iii: 3.

 

Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years of W.D. Weatherford (1966) by Wilma Dykeman

Agnew, Theodore L. Rev. of Prophet of Plenty. Journal of Southern History 34.4 (Nov 1968): 639-40.

Clark, James McClure. "Prophet of Plenty Strong Story." Rev. of Prophet of Plenty. Asheville Citizen 27 Nov 1966: D3.

Grantham, Dewey W., Jr. "The Regional Imagination: Social Scientists and the American South." The Journal of Southern History 34.1 (Feb 1968): 3-32. [Cites Prophet of Plenty, 6, and Seeds of Southern Change, 13.]

Johnson, Clifton H. Rev. of Prophet of Plenty. Progressive (Dec 1967): 44.

Lindau, Betsy. Rev. of Prophet of Plenty. Raleigh News and Observer 1 Jan 1967, sec. iii: 3.

Rev. of Prophet of Plenty. The Journal of Southern History 33.1 (Feb 1967): U17.

Rev. of Prophet of Plenty. The Pilot [Southern Pines, NC] 28 Dec 1966: 3.

 

The Border States: Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia (1968) by Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely

Rev. of The Border States. Filson CQ 43 (1969): 188.

Rev. of The Border States. Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin 65 (15 Feb 1969): 637.

 

Look to This Day (1968) by Wilma Dykeman

Caffall, Margaret M. Rev. of Look to This Day. Library Journal 93 (15 Apr 1968): 1624.

"Miss Dykeman Will Autograph Copies of Her New Book Here." Asheville Citizen 28 Apr 1968: D3. [Mentions book signing for Look to This Day.] Rev. of Look to This Day. Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin 64 (1 June 1968): 1123.

Rev. of Look to This Day. Kirkus Reviews 36 (1 Mar 1968): 301.

Rev. of Look to This Day. Publishers Weekly 193 (8 Apr 1968): 47.

Spearman, Walter. "Wilma Dykeman's 'Simple Life.'" Rev. of Look to This Day. Chapel Hill Weekly 12 May 1968: 4.

Walser, Richard. "Journeys with Wilma Dykeman." Rev. of Look to This Day. Raleigh News and Observer 19 May 1968, sec. iii: 3.

Yardley, Rosemary. "The Unfrenzied Pace of Wilma Dykeman." Rev. of Look to This Day. Greensboro Daily News 12 May 1968: B3.

Return the Innocent Earth (1973) by Wilma Dykeman

Champion, Lynn, Charles 0. Jackson, Mary Richards, and others. "Ridge to Ridge, Ocean to Ocean: The Theme of Community in Appalachian Literature and World Classics." Appalachia Inside Out. Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 392-7. [Summarizes thematic action of Return the Innocent Earth, 394.]

Clark, Luelle M. "Third Novel by Asheville Native Traces Family Through Three Generations." Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Asheville Citizen 8 Apr 1973: CIS.

Doar, Harriet. "Even Ordinary Lives are Surrounded by Mystery." Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Charlotte Observer 29 Apr 1973: F5.

Hardman, Keith J. Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. American Historical Review 103.3 (June 1998): 971-3.

Higgs, Robert J. "Sports and Play in Southern Appalachia: A Tentative Appraisal." Appalachia Inside Out. Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 534-43. [Mentions WD writing on "every reprehensible facet of the do-or-die game," 535.]

Higgs, Robert J. and Ambrose N. Manning, eds. Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1975. Rpt. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1996. [Includes excerpt from Return the Innocent Earth: "Sins of the Fathers," 289-301.]

Hodges, Betty. Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Durham Morning Herald 22 July 1973: E4-5.

Levin, Martin. Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. New York Times Book Review 3 June 1973: sec. 7, 32.

Marius, Richard. "Swift-paced Family Sage Explores Canning Industry." Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Louisville Courier-Journal 29 Apr 1973.

Moose, Ruth. "Clayburn Family Has Warmth of Waltons." Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Charlotte Observer 29 Apr 1973: F5.

-. "The Good Land Outlives Us All." Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Appalachian Journal 1.3 (Autumn 1973): 215-16.

Neal, Dale. "Dykeman follows rise of family food empire: 'Return the Innocent Earth' reissue shows local author at top of her talent." Asheville Citizen-Times 10 Sept 1995: L2.

Neyman, Mark. Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Library Journal 98.9 (1 May 1973): 1508. ["... taken as a whole, the novel is an excellent portrayal of the conflict of heritage and modern values."]

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin 69 (1 July 1973): 1007.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin 69 (15 July 1973): 1068.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Kirkus Reviews 41 (1 Feb 1973): 136-7.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. The Pilot [Southern Pines, NC] 18 Apr 1973: 3.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. The Pilot [Southern Pines, NC] 22 Apr 1973: 3.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Publishers Weekly 12 Feb 1973: 64.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Publishers Weekly 31 Oct 1994: 55.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Publishers Weekly 5 Apr 1973: 64.

Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Saturday Evening Post 246 (Apr 1974): 90.

Rotondaro, Fred. Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Best Sellers 33 (1 May 1973): 52.

Stevens, Karen. Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Library Journal 98 (15 Sept 1973): 2678.

Waage, Fred. "Teaching Environmental Literature in Southern Appalachia." Appalachia Inside Out, Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995. 674-81. [Mentions novel as "revealing the linkage between environmental destruction and commercial exploitation of Appalachia," 678.]

Yardley, Rosemary. "A Saga of Family, Industry and the Land." Rev. of Return the Innocent Earth. Greensboro Daily News 17 June 1973: B3.

 

Too Many People, Too Little Love-Edna Rankin McKinnon: Pioneer for Birth Control (1974) by Wilma Dykeman

Bosch, Karen. Rev. of Too Many People. Library Journal 99 (15 Jan 1974): 130.

Rev. of Too Many People. Kfrkus Reviews 41 (15 Dec 1973): 1388.

Rev. of Too Many People. Publishers Weekly 204.25 (17   Dec 1973): 36-7.

Schneider, A. Gregory. "Book Reviews and Notes." Rev. of Too Many People. Church History 67.2 (June 1998): 414.

 

Tennessee: A Bicentennial History (1975) by Wilma Dykeman

Arpe, Christine. "History Handles Little-Knowns." Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 30 May 1976: F2.

Billington, Monroe. Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. Journal of American History 61 (1977): 455-6.

Boles, John B. Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. American Historical Review 85 (1980): 703-4.

Fite, Gilbert C. Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. Journal of American History 64.2 (Sept 1977): 455-6.

Gerlach, Larry R. Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. History: Reviews of New Books 4.9 (Aug 1976): 190-1.

McKee, James W., Jr. Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. Journal of Southern History 42 (1976): 610-11.

Magness, Perre. "Cherokees courted to British side." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 14 Mar 1996: 2EM.

-. "Fort Loudoun Key to British Control." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 21 Mar 1996: 2EM.

-. "Hunters, Traders Found Tenn. Home." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 29 Feb 1996: 2EM.

-. "Tenn. Settlers an Independent Lot." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 16 May 1996: 2EM.

Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. Choice 13 (1976-77): 88.

Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. History: Review of New Books Aug 1976: 190.

Rev. of Tennessee: A Bicentennial History. National Observer 3 July 1976: 17.

Smith, Sam B. "Wilma Dykeman-Tennessee: A Bicentennial History: An Essay Review and an Appreciation." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 35 (Spring 1976): 95-103.

 

Tennessee Women: Past and Present (1977) by Wilma Dykeman

Bauch, Linda V. Rev. of Tennessee Women. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 37 (Summer 1978): 232-4.

Magness, Perre. "Memphis Once Suffragism Hotbed: Supporters Helped Push 19th Amendment Vote." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 16 Aug 1990: E2.

-. "Tennessee road to statehood rocky: Settlers struggled for recognition," The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 30 May 1996: 2EM. [Quotes WD: "During one short period of twenty-seven years, Tennesseans lived under nine forms of government."]

-. "Tennessee's Approval Crucial to Suffrage." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 17 Aug 1995: 2EM.

-. "Williams sisters set example for women." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 19 May 1994: 2EM.

"Shaping a State: The Legacy of Tennessee Women." Rev. of Tennessee Women: Past and Present. The Tennessee Tribune 9 Nov 1995: 18.

 

With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780 (1978) by Wilma Dykeman

Magness, Perre. "Battle Proved War's Turning Point." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 28 Oct 1999: CC2. [Quotes WD: "No strategy could have been better devised."]

Rev. of With Fire and Sword. Reference Services Review 8 (Oct 1980): 38.

 

Tennessee (1979) by Wilma Dykeman

Billington, Monroe. Rev. of Tennessee. Journal of American History 64.2 (Sept 1977): 455-6.

Boles, John B. "Wilma Dykeman's Tennessee." Rev. of Tennessee. American Historical Review 85.3 (June 1980): 702-4.

Hamill, Dorothy. "Dykeman's 'Tennessee' is fine work." Rev. of Tennessee. Johnson City [TN] Press Chronicle 21 Feb 1976.

"Index to Volume 85." American Historical Review 85.5 (Dec 1980): 1301-1415. [Cites Tennessee, 1311.]

Leonard, Karen. "U.S. State History." Rev. of Tennessee. The American Historical Review 85.3 (June 1980): 702.

Rev. of Tennessee. Choice 13.7 (Sept 1976): 881.

Ruetz, Jon. "Ms. Dykeman's 'Tennessee' receives award." Johnson City Press 27 Sept 1987: 41.

Schaffer, Michael. "Treading on that Treacherous Ground Between the Scholarly and the Fictional: State History Series Bows with One Hit, Two Misses." Rev. essay of Tennessee, by Wilma Dykeman. National Observer 15 (3 July 1976): 17.

"Tennessee Titans owner donates books to schools." The Associated Press State & Local Wire [Knoxville, TN] 20 May 1999. [Mentions Owner of NFL franchise donating copies of Tennessee to the library of every local public school with a seventh grade.]

 

Appalachian Mountains (1980) by Wilma Dykeman and Dykeman Stokely

Brachey, Nancy. Rev. of Appalachian Mountains. Charlotte Observer 28 Sept 1980: 12E.

Gunter, Rick. "Appalachian Mountains—Visual Treats." Rev. of Appalachian Mountains. Asheville Citizen-Times 23 Nov 1980: 6L.

 

Explorations (1984) by Wilma Dykeman

Barker, Garry. Rev. of Explorations. Appalachian Heritage 13.3 (1985): 73-4.

Hulme, Francis P. "Wilma Dykeman: Explorations a Fine Introduction to Author." Rev. of Explorations. Asheville Citizen 23 Oct 1984: 4.

 

Tennessee Woman: An Infinite Variety (1993) by Wilma Dykeman

"Book Folks." The Commercial Appeal 19 Dec 1993: G4. [Mentions WD's appearance at Davis-Kidd Booksellers.]

Carney, Ginny. Rev. of Tennessee Woman: An Infinite Variety. Appalachian Heritage 22.1 (Winter 1994): 57-9.

Hill, Karen Nazor. "TownTalk: Extraordinary Women, Extraordinary Contributions." Chattanooga Times 12 May 1999: E3. [WD featured speaker at American Lung Assn's 14th annual Women of Distinction luncheon. Tennessee Woman given as a door prize for each table.]

Lollar, Michael. "Turn of the Century: Religion, the Blues, Cotton Harvesting, Mules, Floods, Inventors, Immigrants from Near and Far, and One Mighty Mayor Left their Stamp on Memphis-and the World." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 4 July 1999: 1-4. [Ref. to Tennessee Woman, 3.]

Paine-Brooks, Lesia. "Book portrays historic heroines." Rev. of Tennessee Woman: An Infinite Variety. Johnson City [TN] Press 5 Dec 1993: 50.

Sloan, Kenny. "Proffitt's Inviting 7th-Graders to Write Tenn. History Essays." Chattanooga Free Press 3 Feb 1997: A7. [Company donates copies of Tennessee and Tennessee Woman to 214 East Tennessee schools to inspire students' writing.]

"Suffrage Traiblazing in Tennessee: The Volunteer State cast the deciding vote for female enfranchisement." Chattanooga Free Press 9 Apr 1995. [Describes book as salute to the Volunteer State's feminists.]

"Town Talk." Chattanooga Free Press 27 Aug 1995. [Quotes from book.]

 

Haunting Memories: Echoes and Images of Tennessee's Past (1996) by Wilma Dykeman, photos by Christine P. Patterson

Glendenning, Karin. "Book Talk." Chattanooga Free Press 25 Aug 1996: M5. [Mentions Dykeman as author of text for Haunting Memories.]

Hasden, Wes. "Middle age, et cetera Volumes contain a variety of data." The Chattanooga Times 22 Aug 1996: C4. [Mentions Haunting Memories]

"Haunting Memories; echoes and images of Tennessee's past; hand-tinted photographs." Reference and Research Book News (May 1997): 37.

Howell, Matt. "Collection echoes history of Tennessee." Rev. of Haunting Memories. The Daily Beacon [Knoxville, TN] 25 June 1996. [To view: <http://www. dailybeacon.utk.edu/issues/v72/n9/museum.9a.html>.]

Parker, Tina. Rev. of Haunting Memories. Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14.2 (Summer 1997): 33-4.

 

Miscellaneous or Brief Mentions (ordered by subject)

 

Award Notices & Recognitions

"Book Folks." The Commercial Appeal 4 Oct 1992: G4. [WD receives third Governor's Award in the Humanities from Tennessee Humanities Council.]

Cross, Howard. "Quick Glance at Today's News." Chattanooga Free Press 6 May 1998: A2. [Mentions WD as Tennessee's Woman of the Year.]

"Five Will Be Inducted Into Literary Hall of Fame." The Pilot [Southern Pines, NC] 6 Apr 1998: 4B-5B. [WD's induction to NC Literary Hall of Fame.]

Hill, Karen Nazor. "American Lung Association Holds Luncheon To Honor 10 Women of Distinction." Chattanooga Times 21 May 2000: B3. [Photo of WD, Former Tennessee Woman of the Year, with Susan Davidson.]

Hodges, Betty. "Literary figures honored 5 inducted into state's Literary Hall of Fame." The Herald-Sun [Durham, NC] 24 May 1998: E6.

"Inn Dedicates Rooms to Writers." The Associated Press State & Local Wire [Bryson City, NC] 21 June 1999. [Dedication of Historic Calhoun Country Inn room to honor WD.]

Johnson, Julie. "Town Talk." Chattanooga Free Press 17 May 1998: J6. [WD is 1998 Tennessee Woman of Distinction.]

Pierce, Susan. "Women of Distinction Announced: Eleven honored at luncheon yesterday at Choo-Ghoo." Chattanooga Free Press 6 May 1998: Dl. [Mentions WD as Tennessee's Woman of the Year.]

Smith, Whitney. "Metal Museum, Circuit, FexEx Honored in Arts." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 6 Dec 1990: Cl. [Mentions WD as Governor's Award winner.]

Steelman, Ben. "Wilmington fares well in writing competition: 5 Tar Heel writers latest inductees into state Hall of Fame." Sunday Star-News [Wilmington, NC] 17 May 1998: 6D.

Streitfeld, David. "Asheville, N.C., Hideaways Get You Into Spirit of Season." The Houston Chronicle 24 Nov 1991: 3. [Inn room dedicated to WD.]

-. "Inn-dulgences: Christmas in Asheville." The Washington Post 5 May 1991: El. [Room dedicated to WD at Richmond Hill.] "Writers in the N.C. Literary Hall of Fame." The Associated Press State & Local Wire [Southern Pines, NC] 18 Sept 1999.

 

General

ARC Encyclopedia Starts to Shape Up." The Sunday Gazette Mail [Charleston, SC] 9 Mar 1997: 2E. [Mentions WD as member of ARC advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia.]

"Battlefield of Human Rights." Nation 186.9 (1 Mar 1958): 178. [Mentions WD in context of social change.]

Beaver, Patricia and Helen Lewis. "A Cold Day in Hell: An Interview with Jerry Williamson." 28.1 (Fall 2000): 78-115. [Mentions WD, 85.]

Bell, Howard H. "Current Literature on Negro Education: We Dissent." Journal of Negro Education 32.3 "A Valedictory Note" (Summer 1963): 246-7. [Mentions WD as a contributing essayist of We Dissent.]

Betts, Doris. Introduction. Southern Women Writers. Ed. Tonette Bond Inge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1990. [Mentions WD's writing on Southern Appalachia, 4.

"The Book Page." Roanoke Times & World News 10 May 1998: 4. [Mentions WD as contributing essayist to Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers.]

"Brief Mention." American Literature 64.3 (Sept 1992): 644. [Mentions WD as one author studied in The Poetics of Appalachian Space.]

Briscoe, Lori, Erica S. Collins, Amanda Deal, Ron Hancock, and Kristyn McGraw. "Interview with Loyal Jones." Appalachian Journal 27A (Summer 2000): 378- 403. [Mentions WD as Appalachian historian, 400.]

"Council on Appalachian Women Records: 1958-1981, 1977-1981." Council on Appalachian Women. [Mars Hill, NC] 1958, 1981.

Daniel, Pete. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950’s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. [Briefly mentions Dykeman's contributions to building a new South].

Davis, Anthony C. "Get to know past, present Southern literary legends." Philadelphia Tribune 114.63 (7 Aug 1998): 1-A. [Mentions WD as interviewee in "Tell About the South," aired on PBS WHYY in Philadelphia.]

Ensor, Allison. "American Realism and the Case for Appalachian Literature." Appalachia Inside Out. Vol. 2. Eds. Higgs, Manning, and Miller. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1995. 630-41. [Mentions WD as prominent Appalachian writer not included in the article, 640.]

Haskins, Ralph W. Rev. of The Desegregation Era in Higher Education, by Sam P. Wiggins." The Journal of American History 54.3 (Dec 1967): 722. [Mentions Wiggins' errors, i.e. "Dykema."]

Higgs, Robert J. "'Are You Quality, Or Do you Stack?': Appalachia and the Future of Southern Letters." Appalachian Journal 25.1 (Fall 1997): 62-83. [Mentions WD as "conservator," 76.]

-. Rev. of Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Appalachian Journal 26.3 (Spring 1999): 319-28. [Mentions Dykeman's writing on Appalachia, 325.

"Introduction." Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South. Eds. Bain and Flora. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. [Mentions WD as distinguished writer in "a number of literary forms," 11-12.]

"James R. Stokely, Jr. (1913-1977)." A Southern Appalachian Reader. Eds. Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1988. 189. [Mentions WD as wife of Stokely and co-author of award-winning Neither Black Nor White.}

Joyner, Nancy Carol. Rev. of Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers. NWSA Journal 11.3 (Fall 1999): 196.

LeMay, Chloe. "Writers get snagged in historical details." The Herald [Rock Hill, SC] 27 Feb 1999: 4A. [Quotes WD on image of working women.]

McKinney, Gordon. "Jerry Williamson-An Appreciation." Appalachian Journal 28.1 (Fall 2000): 68-77. [Mentions WD as member of editorial board of Appalachian Journal, 69.

Newbern, Kathy M. and J.S. Fletcher. "Blue Ridge Rambles: Fall colors only a start of area's allure." The Washington Times 18 Sept 1994: El. [Includes brief bio of WD.]

Ramsey, D. Hiden. Papers: 1877-1966 Chapel Hill: UNC, 1966.

Ross, Paul E. Rev. of Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers. Appalachian Journal 26.1 (Fall 1998): 57-60.

Saxon, Wolfgang. "Information Bank Abstracts." New York Times 29 Mar 1976: col. 4, 38. [Mentions WD as author of volume for publication from the National Association for State and Local History.]

"Sequoyah's Gift." Our Words, Our Ways: Reading and Writing in North Carolina, Teacher's Resource Guide. Ed. Sally Buckner. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1991. 45-7. [Mentions WD will publish a book about Sequoyah, 47.]

Sinacola, Chris. "Rivers Spark Human Spirit-Exploring Our Waterways: Arteries of the Region." Sunday Telegram [Worcester, MA] 2 July 2000: Al. [Quotes WD on having been "born to the sound of water."]

Spear, Ken. "Classroom Currents." Chattanooga Free Press 2 Feb 1997: B6. [Mentions WD as co-creator of Tennessee History Essay Competition.]

Speer, Jean Haskell. "Montani Semper Liberi: Mary Lee Settle and the Myths of Appalachia." Southern Women Writers. Ed. Tonette Bond Inge. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1990. [Mentions WD as writing on "complexity and causes of Appalachia's perceived 'otherness,'" 21.]

"Telling Tales South of the 'Mason-Diction Line; Books: Southerners Seem to Have a Deep-Seated Need to Express Themselves." Los Angeles Times 23 Nov 1989: EE10. [Mentions WD's coining phrase "South of the Mason-Diction Line."]

Waggoner, Martha. "NC Literary Community Shares Spirit of Generosity." The Associated Press State & Local Wire [Raleigh, NC] 18 Sept 1999. [Mentions WD as  pioneer environmentalist, feminist, and civil rights activist]

Zibart, Eve. "The Writers of Dixie: In Nashville, a Region's Authors Gather." The Washington Post 16 Oct 1989: Bl. [Mentions WD as a distinctly "Southern" writer.]

 

Speeches and Appearances

"2-Way Radio Outdoor Plus." Chattanooga Free Press 1 Sept 1995. [WD as featured speaker at 60th anniversary of Blue Ridge Parkway.]

"Appalachia Conference Scheduled." The Nashville Banner 18 May 1977. [WD as speaker at Appalachian Conference, Nashville.]

Chorpening, Jennifer. "Film festival puts focus on downtown: Residents and visitors agree DoubleTake is having an impact on city's economy and image." The Herald-Sun [Durham, NC] 10 Apr 2000: Al. [WD as participant at DoubleTake Documentary film festival.]

Cook, Dan. "Commission changes on TCL [Tennessee Conservation League] agenda." Chattanooga Times 19 Apr 2001: D5. [WD on the program of spring TCL meeting, with topic "Conservation: Our Greatest Challenge."]

Davies, Rachel. "North Carolina's Literary Festival will Honor Readers." News & Record [Greensboro, NC] 16 Mar 1998: A9. [Mentions WD as speaker at first NC Literary Festival.

Dockery, Harriett. "Speaker Discusses Appalachian Women." Hickory [NC] Daily Record 24 Apr 1979. [from ASU clippings file: Summarizes WD's speech given at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton, NC, concerning "the images of women in literature about the Appalachians."]

"Dykeman To Lecture At MCC." [Mayland Community College, NC] Avery [NC] Journal 1 Apr 1993: 2B.

"Education Notebook." The Chattanooga Times 20 Apr 1996: Bl. [WD as UTC Keynote speaker.]

Glendenning, Karin. "Book Review." Chattanooga Free Press 29 Sept 1996: K4. [Mentions WD as attendant of the Southern Festival of Books, Nashville.] -. "Book Talk." Chattanooga Times 25 Apr 1999: H6. [WD as participant in panel, "Fact or Fiction: Defining the Boundaries in Historical Writing."]

-. "Book Talk: Literature Conference Scheduled April 15-17." Chattanooga Times 28 Mar 1999: J6. [Mentions WD as headlining the 1999 Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature.]

-. "'A Sense of Place': Tenth Anniversary Southern Literature Conference Set for April 15-17." Chattanooga Times 1 Mar 1999: Dl. [Mentions WD address-the James W. Livingood Lecture, "The Many Voices of History"-at the 1999 Biennial Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature; photo.]

Guest, M. "Thanks to All Who Helped Young Writers." Chattanooga Times 28 Apr 1999: B6. [Nancy Copeland, teacher at Loftis Middle School, struck by significance of students hearing lecture by "real" writer WD.]

Hamilton, Holman. "The Twenty-Second Annual Meeting." Journal of Southern History 23.1 (Feb 1957): 76-7. [Summarizes WD's presentation at the 22nd annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Durham, NC, Nov. 15- 17, 1956.]

Higginbotham, S.W. "The Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting." Journal of Southern History 30.1 (Feb 1964): 85. [Summarizes WD's presentation at the 29th annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Asheville, NC, Nov. 7-9, 1963.]

Hill, Karen Nazor. "Town Talk: A-a-a-y! The Fonz Dedicates UTC Chair of Excellence." Chattanooga Times 20 Jan 1999: E3. [Mentions WD as featured speaker of American Lung Association's 14th annual Women of Distinction awards luncheon.]

-. "Town Talk: Lung Association To Announce 10 Women of Distinction." Chattanooga Times 12 Apr 1999: D3.

"In Short This and That." The Charleston [WV] Gazette 20 Mar 1997: 5D. [WD as speaker in Appalachian Visions series at College of WV in Beckley, WV.]

Johnson, Julie. "Town Talk." Chattanooga Free Press 13 Mar 1996. [WD received two standing ovations after addressing students at Girls Preparatory School.]

Johnson, Rheta Grimsley. "It was 'a gathering of old Southerners in their anecdotage.'" The Atlanta Journal and Constitution 15 June 2000: IE. [Mentions WD as attendant of Popham Seminar.]

Koeppel, Fredrick. "Historian to Address Library Group." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 21 Apr 1993: Cl. [Mentions WD's speaking about writing to the Friends of the Memphis/Shelby County Libraries.]

-. "Local Author Wins 0. Henry Award." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 28 Feb 1999: H3. [WD as speaker at 10th Biennial Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature.]

Locker, Richard. "McWherter Forms Panel to Plan for Bicentennial." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 2 June 1992: Bl. [Mentions WD as panel member.]

McDonald, Emily. "Frazier Joining 2 Footes at Literature Conference." Chattanooga Times 13 Feb 1999: B3. {Mentions WD's presentation of the Livingood Lecture at the 10th biennial of the Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature.]

-. "Southern Literature Event Begins Thursday-'A Sense of Place' is Conference Theme: Forum Drawing National Attention." Chattanooga Times 9 Apr 1999: Bl. [Mentions film crew from CSPAN will tape panel featuring WD.]

Merriman, Ann Lloyd. "Between the Bookends." The Richmond Times Dispatch 21 Dec 1997: F-5. [Mentions WD as participant in first NC Literary Festival.]

Neil, Denise. "College Dreams Realized." The Chattanooga Times 4 May 1996: B4. [Mentions WD as UTC Keynote speaker.]

Petty, Sue. "Entertainment Calendar." Chattanooga Times 26 Mar 1999: D3. [Mentions WD's public reading and reception at Baylor School.]

"Shaping a State: The Legacy of Tennessee Women." Tennessee Tribune 5.41 (9 Nov 1995): 18. [Mentions WD as moderator of "Shaping a State: The Legacy of Tennessee Women" symposium held 28 Oct 1995, Nashville.]

Shearer, John. "DAR Women Meet in Memphis." Chattanooga Free Press 31 Mar 1996. [Mentions WD as featured speaker at Tennessee Bicentennial Luncheon.]

-. "Leader Clothing Store Filed for Bankruptcy 10 years Ago." Chattanooga Free Press 14 Sept 1997: F3. [Mentions WD as speaking at dedication of new Baylor School.]

-. "Rock City Reaches for Sky with Balloon, Radio Tower." Chattanooga Free Press 17 Mar 1996. [Mentions WD as speaking at the Visions '86 conference at the Trade Center.]

-. "Tenn. Author Will Address UTC Grads." Chattanooga Free Press 28 Apr 1996. [Mentions WD as UTC Keynote speaker.]

Spear, Ken LeVon. "'Do-Nut' Williams Among UTC Graduates: Veteran Lawman Gets His Degree at Last." Chattanooga Free Press 5 May 1996. [Mentions WD as UTC Keynote speaker.]

"State Historian to Speak at Tenn. DAR Conference." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 7 Mar 1996: 11D. [WD as featured speaker.]

Steelman, Ben. "Book Marks: Peggy Payne among 12 authors interviewed in new anthology." Sunday Star-News [Wilmington, NC] 4 Jan 1998: 6D. [Mentions WD as speaker at first NC Literary Festival.]

"Symposium celebrates women in Tennessee history." Tennessee Tribune 5.12 (1 Apr 1995): 12. [Mentions WD as moderator of "Shaping a State: The Legacy of Tennessee Women" symposium held 28 Oct 1995, Nashville.]

Thrasher, Paula Crouch. "Southern Happenings." Cox News Service [St. Augustine, FL] 3 Nov 1998. [Mentions WD as speaker at 1st Lost State Writer's Conference.] ]

-. "Southern Happenings: Greenville, Tenn." Atlanta Journal and Constitution 4 Nov 1998: 4E. [WD as speaker at 1st Lost State Writer's Conference.]

"What's happening at the Doubletake Documentary Film Festival." The Herald-Sun [Durham, NC] 31 Mar 2000: D12. [Mentions WD scheduled to appear.]

"Wilma Dykeman headlines Stegner Lecture Series." Los Altos Town Crier [Mountain View, CA] 25 Oct 1995. [Mentions WD's lecture, to view: <http:// www.losaltosonline.com/latc/arch/9543/content.html>.]

"Writers to participate in two UNC literary festivals in April." Chapel Hill Herald 26 Dec 1997: 1. [Mentions WD as participant in first NC Literary Festival.]

 

References to Asheville, NC

Ausley, Judy. "Asheville is a Carolina town made for strolling." The Herald [Rock Hill, SC] 2 Nov 2001: ID. [Mentions WD as frequent visitor to Malaprop's Books and CafA, Asheville, NC.]

Hopper, Kathryn. "Asheville visit speaks volumes about Fitzgerald, Wolfe and Sandburg." Fort Worth Star Telegram 12 Oct 1997: 1. [Mentions WD as having strong Asheville connection.]

-. "Literary Itinerary: Far from turning the page, two towns embrace (and market) the writers whose legends put them on the map; Asheville, N.C.: The spirits of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and Carl Sandburg still walk the streets and roads of western North Carolina." The Sun [Baltimore] 14 Dec 1997: IK. [Mentions WD as Asheville native.]

Hurst, Jack. "A Homeward Look in Asheville: History and Memories Mingle in Two Houses Worlds Apart." The Chicago Tribune 8 Jan 1995: sec. 12, 1, 17. [Mentions WD as Asheville native.]

McAlister, Nancy. "Enchanted by Asheville: Art, Architecture, and Mountain Vistas make The Land of Sky an Enviable Escape." The Florida Times-Union [Jacksonville, FL] 8 Aug 1999: E-l. [Mentions WD as Asheville resident]

 

References to Other Authors

"Arts Briefs: The Wolfe Pack." Raleigh News & Observer 30 Aug 1998: 3G. [Mentions WD as participant in fundraiser for Thomas Wolfe memorial.]

Betts, Jack. "Thomas Wolfe: Was He the Greatest North Carolina Writer? His Prose was Ponderous but often Brilliant and Unique, Critics Say." Charlotte Observer 1 Oct 2000: 4C. [Quotes WD on meeting Thomas Wolfe.]

"Book Notes: Seedtime on the Cumberland." Journal of Southern History 50.1 (Feb 1984): 159. [Mentions WD's Foreword in rpt. of Harriette Simpson Arnow's Seedtime on the Cumberland.}

"Chronicle." Appalachian Journal 24.2 (Winter 1996: 234-44. [Mentions WD's taking part in James Still's 90th birthday party, 237.]

Dellinger, Paul. "2 Local Authors Honored." Roanoke Times & World News 29 July 1997: NRV4. [Mentions Parks Lanier as winning top Wilma Dykeman Award for Essay on "The Absence of an Appalachian Aesthetic".]

Dyer, Joyce. "Brier Eulogy: Dialogue with a Dead Man." Appalachian Journal 26.1 (Fall 1998): 32-43. [Mentions WD's work, 38.]

Eyman, Scott. "Wolfe Memorial Fund-Raising Angels Looking Homeward." The Palm Beach Post 3 Jan 1999: 4J. [Mentions WD's fund-raising to save home of Thomas Wolfe.

Glendenning, Karin. "McCrumb Creates More Than a Mystery in Her Latest Novel." Chattanooga Free Press 1 Sept 1996: M5. [Likens McCrumb's style to WD.]

Gossett, Polly Paddock. "Mountains Childhood Shaped Gap Creek Author." Charlotte Observer. 19 Mar 2000: IF, 10F. [Robert Morgan discusses WD's strong women characters.

Herring, Gina. Rev. of Wingless Flight: Appalachian Women in Fiction, by Danny L. Miller. Appalachian Journal 24.4 (Summer 1997): 448-52. [Mentions WD not included in Miller's text, 451.]

"Internationally Known Storyteller to Perform Here." Lancaster [PA] New Era 26 Mar 1998: 3. [WD comments on storytelling of Donald Davis.]

"Jim Wayne Miller." Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series. Ed. Joyce Nakamura. vol. 15 Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1992. [Mentions WD's influence on Miller, 283, 285.]

Maimon, Alan. "Service celebrates life of writer James Still." The Louisville Courier-Journal 2 May 2001. [Mentions WD as speaker at Still's funeral, to view: <http:// www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/05/02/ke050201sl8659.htm>.]

Moehringer, J.R. "Fading Embers of Thomas Wolfe: Novelist's Boyhood Home has Fallen to Arson, His Legacy to Changing Tastes." Los Angeles Times 15 Jan 2000: 1. [Mentions WD's thinking "Wolfe has been the victim of Eastern snobbery by critics who consider him a hillbilly".]

"Novelist McCrumb to Appear at Library." The Columbus Dispatch 14 Mar 2000: 7F. [Quotes McCrumb as having "linked bloodlines to both Del McCoury and Wilma Dykeman".

"Other Books Received." The American Historical Review 89.4 (Oct 1984): 1207-1216. [Ref. to WD's Foreword to Harriette Simpson Arnow's Flowering of the Cumberland, 1212.]

Petty, Sue. "Tennessee Rap Song Writer Backs McAfee." Chattanooga Free Press 18 Oct 1996: A5. [Mentions Petty's performance with WD at World's Fair Stage at the First Families of Tennessee Celebration, Knoxville.]

Ruth, Jim. "Tales don't have to be tall to tell." Sunday News [Lancaster, PA] 15 Mar 1998: H-l. [WD comments on storytelling of Donald Davis.]

"Thomas Wolfe Birthday Events." News & Record [Greensboro, NC] 1 Oct 2000: H6. [WD introduces performance of Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel, Asheville.]

Veale, Scott. "New & Noteworthy Paperbacks." New York Times 28 Feb 1999: sec. 7, 24. [WD comments on Jubilee, by Margaret Walker.]

Young, Perry. "Working the magic of the theater." Chapel Hill Herald 11 Aug 2001: 4. [Mentions WD's influence on Young.]

 

Tennessee History & Literature

"Book Notes: The Electric Valley." The Journal of Southern History 51.1 (Feb 1985): 142. [Includes brief summary of film The Electric Valley, narrated by WD.]

"Book Talk." Chattanooga Free Press 12 Nov 1995. [Mentions WD's Foreword to Stories of Early Inns and Taverns of the East Tennessee Country.]

Brandon, Betty. "The Forty-ninth Annual Meeting." The Journal of Southern History 50.1 (Feb 1984): 93. [Includes ref. to The Electric Valley, narrated by WD.]

Dries, Bill. "Tennessee Quarter Due in '02: Public to Call Tails." The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 13 Apr 2000: Al. ["Many ideas about Tennessee were not good identifiers for the entire state. Dykeman, who was on the commission, agreed: 'We have unity in that diversity, but how you get that into a logo for a coin, I'm not sure,' she said by phone from her home."]

Higgins, Randall. "Visit Tennessee via New Volume on History, Culture." The Chattanooga Times 8 Oct 1998: C4. [Mentions WD as contributor to Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.}

Mansfield, Duncan. "Let the party begin!" The Chattanooga Times 1 June 1996: Bl. [Quotes WD: "On Statehood Day in Tennessee, marking the 200th anniversary of the Volunteer State becoming the 16th member of the union, Wilma Dykeman said it is a time 'to really take a long look at where we have been, what we have needed to do and where we are going. And if we learn from the past then our celebrations will really mean so much to the future.'"]

-. "Tough Policy on Pigeon River Urged." The Chattanooga Times 30 May 1996: B3. [Mentions WD as arguing for 40 years to clean up the Pigeon Forge.]

Palmer, Jane. "A League of Their Own." Omaha World-Herald 27 Mar 1996: 43sf. [Mentions WD as contributing text to Dining in the Smoky Mountain Mist: A Collection of Seasonal Delights from the Junior League of Knoxville.]

"Residents argue for keeping the '10.'" The Commercial Appeal [Memphis, TN] 27 Feb 1996: 10B. [Quotes WD: "Dykeman 'doesn't remember seeing the Ten Commandments posted in public buildings and doesn't know of any other such places where they are posted now.'"]

 

World Wide Web and Internet

 

Academic

Additional Books & Videos in the WWC Library-Warren Wilson College. Retrieved 2 Oct 2001. <http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~library/ southbks.htmX>.

Appalachian Women. East Tennessee State U.. <http:// cass.etsu.edu/archives/women.htm>.

AW A Contests [Appalachian Writers Association.] East Tennessee State U.. <http://www.etsu.edu/english/judaculla/awa_contests.htm>.

Beckner, Leslie. Wilma Dykeman. Virginia Tech U. <http://athena.english.vt.edu/~appalach/writersA/dykeman.html>.

Brevard College Establishes Vance Award; Dykeman Named First Recipient.Brevard College. <http://www.brevard.edu/events/articles/vanceaward.htmlx>.

Classmates Decoded: Northwestern Fall 2000. <http:// www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/fall2000/fallOOClassnotes.htm>.

Daley, Ginny. Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works. Duke U. <http://odyssey.lib. duke.edu/women/ncwwtoc.htmlfwritersX>.

The Double Take Documentary Film Festival: Southern Writers on Film. Duke U  <http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/film festival/southern.htmlx >.

English, Mary R., Jean H. Peretz, and Melissa Manderschied. Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties: A Process Guide. U of Tennesse, Knoxville. <http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/smart/ title.htmX>.

Flowers, Trees, & Other Flora. U of Tennessee, Knoxville. <http://www.outreach.utk.edu/smoky/flowers.html>.

Keynote Presentation: An Evening with Wilma Dykeman. University of South Carolina. <http://www.meerkat-computing. com/ dykeman.htmlX Literature Subject Guide. E.W. King Library, King College. <http://www.king.edu/library/subjectguides/lit.htm>.

Patricia M. Gantt: Assistant Professor of English. Utah State University. Nov 2001. <http://english.usu.edu/americanstudies/gantt.html>.

Ramsey Library Special Collections. U of North Carolina, Asheville. 2001. <http://toto.lib.unca.edu/collections/oralhistories.html>.

Southern Historical Collection #3805. Manuscripts Dept, Library of U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. <http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/r/Ramsey,D.Hiden>.

Tedesco, Marie. Archives of Appalachia: East Tennessee State University. Appalachian Studies Association. <http:// www.appalachianstudies.org/a-lf.htm>.

UNC Asheville News Release: Wilma Dykeman to Replace Leon Botstein as Keynote Speaker at Humanities Conference. <http://www.unca.edu/news/releases/2001/dykeman.html>.

Wilma Dykeman, River Writer. Center for Global Environmental Education. Hamline University. <http://cgee.hamline. edu/rivers/Resources/Voices/dykeman.htmX>.

Manuscripts and Papers in the Wilma Dykeman Collection, University of North Carolina, Asheville

The Department of Special Collections at D.H. Ramsey Library at UNC-A holds materials dealing with Wilma Dykeman's earlier work, including:

Bryan, Solon H. "The Highway House." Asheville Times Summer 1938. Solon H. Bryan, founder of the Piedmont Bureau and the Piedmont Circuit Lyceum, was so impressed by Dykeman's student poetry that he featured her poems in his column "The Highway House." Bryan quotes from Dykeman's poetry published in the May, 1938, issue of Bluets.

Dykeman, Wilma and George Smith, eds. Bluets Asheville-Biltmore College, 1929-1960. University Archives, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina, Asheville. Dykeman's work appears in the following issues:

    January 1937;

"The Bells," poem, 14.

"Finis," poem, 29.

"The Gentle Art of Telephoning," editorial, 14.

"Mood," poem, 28.

"The One Unseen," poem, 25.

"Spotlight," Rev. of Spotlight, by Clarence Buddington Kelland 19.

"The Things I Love," poem, 38.

    May 1937:

"About Birds and People," poem, 24.

"Autopsy," poem, 29.

"Defeat," poem, 34.

"Even as You and I," poem, 28.

"Inconsistency," poem, 7.

"It Can't Happen Here," poem, 29.

"Live Alone and Like It," Rev. of Live Alone and Like It, by Marjorie Hillis, 21.

    January 1938:

"Life," poem, 28.

"The Pirate of Wall Street-J.P. Morgan," essay, 40-1.

    May 1938:

"Assignment in Utopia," Rev. of Assignment in Utopia, by Eugene Lyons, 33.

"Autobiography," poem, 19.

"Escape," short story, 30.

"Of Colors," poem, 15.

"Personal History," poem, 11.

"Postscript," poem, 43.

"To My Mother," poem, 17.

"Two Roads There Are," poem, 35.

"Wanted: Men and Women Not for Sale," editorial, 3.

Virginia Bryan Schrieber Oral History, Louis D. Silveri Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina, Asheville. Consists of an oral history interview with Virginia Bryan Schreiber, Wilma Dykeman's teacher at Asheville-Biltmore College and faculty advisor to the Bluets staff. Ms. Schreiber discusses Ms. Dykeman and her husband, Mr. James Stokely. <http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/SHRC/schreiber.html>. Wilma Dykeman Stokely Oral History, Voices of Asheville, Oral History Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina, Asheville.

 

Manuscripts and Papers on Wilma Dykeman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Manuscripts Department in the Southern Historical Collection contains an extensive collection of correspondence, including letters to, from, and about Dykeman, in the Buckner Papers, Ramsey Papers, Rubin Papers, Weatherford Papers, and Walser Papers

 

Manuscripts and Papers in the Wilma Dykeman Collection, Berea College, Kentucky

Biographical files on Wilma Dykeman, with the majority of articles and clippings are pieces she wrote for the Knoxville News-Sentinel and the Asheville Citizens-Time. Two files of clippings and ephemera exist in the Berea College Archives.

The collection also includes printer's galleys and page proofs of Prophet of Plenty: The First Ninety Years of W.D. Weatherford. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1966. [Biography of Willis D. Weatherford, Sr.]

 

Manuscripts and Papers in the Wilma Dykeman Collection, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

There are three small collections of manuscript material pertaining to Wilma Dykeman in the Department of Special Collections, James D. Hoskins Special Collections Library. Included are the Tennessee Library Association Papers, a letter from John Hodge, and the Stokely Dykeman Papers.

 

Papers and Photos of Wilma Dykeman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Photographs of Wilma Dykeman in the Special Collections and Archives at J. Murrey Atkins Library. North Carolina Writers Conference. Photographs ca. 1960-65. J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Material can also be found in the Harriet Doar Papers and Harry Golden Papers.

 

Manuscripts and Papers of Wilma Dykeman, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Papers can be found in the Levin Collection, the McKinnon Collection, and the Ragland Collection.

 

Manuscripts and Papers on Wilma Dykeman, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Papers can be found in the Egerton Collection, Davidson Papers, and Rogers Papers.