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The Black Poet: Being the Remarkable Story … of George Moses Horton. New York: Philosophical Library, 1966.
The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Five Walsers, an Informal Account. Raleigh: Wolf’s Head Press, 1976.
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Inglis Fletcher of Bandon Plantation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, 1952.
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Short Stories from the Old North State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
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The Watauga Club. Raleigh: Wolf’s Head Press, 1980.
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