University of North Carolina at Asheville
D. Hiden Ramsey Library
Special Collections

Olive Tilford Dargan
(b. 1869-1968)

Southern Appalachian Writers Collection

M2005.05.01-08

 
Title Olive Tilford Dargan
Creator Southern Highlands Research Center
Alt. Creator D. H. Ramsey Library
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/southern_appalachian_writers/dargan_olive_tilford/dargan_olive_tilford.htm
Subject Keyword Olive Tilford Dargan ; Southern Appalachian Writers ; Appalachia
Subject LCSH Dargan, Olive Tilford, 1869 - 1968
Description The collection contains anecdotal information on the writer.  These materials were gathered as part of an exhibition of Southern Appalachian Writers held at UNCA in the early 1980's and sponsored by D. H. Ramsey Library and the Southern Highlands Research Center.
Publisher D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor Annette Hatley
Date 2005-08-23
Type text 
Format 1 folder ; text
Source M2005.05.1-8
Language English
Relation The Heritage of Western North Carolina, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 
Coverage 1900's  ; Appalachia
Rights Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.  Some materials in collections are electronic rights only. Please ask for assistance from Special Collections staff.
Donor 240
Acquisition  2004-03-
Citation Olive Tilford Dargan in Southern Appalachian Writers Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff,  2005
Last update 2008-08-27
Statement on writing  
Biography

Olive Tilford Dargan was born in Kentucky in 1869.  Though an extensive traveler, Dargan made her home in the mountains of North Carolina—first from 1915 to 1923 on the farm she and her husband had purchased in Swain County, and then in Asheville from 1925 until the end of her life in 1968.  In addition to numerous books of poetry and verse drama, Dargan also wrote fiction and nonfiction set in and about the Appalachians.  She pseudonymously authored a cycle of proletarian novels about American labor strikes, the first two of which take place in Gastonia, North Carolina.  Her final collection of poetry, The Spotted Hawk, won both the Thomas Wolfe and Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry.
Bibliography BOOKS BY

1904

 Semiramis and Other Plays.  New York: Brentano's, 1904.

1906

 Lords and Lovers and Other Dramas.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906.

1912

 The Mortal Gods and Other Plays.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1912.

1913

 The Welsh Pony, Described in Two Letters to a Friend.  Boston: Privately Printed for C.A. Stone, 1913.

1914

 Path Flower and Other Verses.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914.

1915

 Beyond War.  Riverside, CT: Hillacre Bookhouse, 1915.

1916

 The Cycle's Rim.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916

1917

 At the Gate.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1917.

Ballad of the Rich Suitor.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1917.

1918

 The Fourth Watch.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1918.

1920

 Francesca.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920.

1921

 After the Game.  Boston: Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921.

1922

 The Flutter of the Goldleaf, and Other Plays.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922.

Lute and Furrow..  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922.

1925

 Highland Annals.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925.

1926

 Songs of a City.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1926.

1932

 Call Home the Heart.  New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1932.

1935

 A Stone Came Rolling.  New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1935.

1941

 From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks.  Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1941.

1947

 Sons of the Stranger.  Longmans, Green, and Company, 1947

1958

 The Spotted Hawk: Poems.  Winston-Salem, NC: J.F. Blair, 1958.

1962

 Innocent Bigamy and Other Stories.  Winston-Salem, NC: J.F. Blair, 1962.