Sharyn McCrumb

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sharyn McCrumb (born February 26, 1948)[1] is an American writer best known for books that celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards[2], and is the author of the best selling "Ballad" novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains; the NASCAR series featuring St. Dale; and the Elizabeth McPherson mystery series.

Early life

Sharyn McCrumb was born Sharyn Elaine Arwood on February 26, 1948, in Wilmington, North Carolina.[3]

Career

McCrumb is a Southern writer, perhaps best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels, including The New York Times best-sellers The Ballad of Frankie Silver and She Walks These Hills, and for St. Dale, winner of a Library of Virginia Award and featured at the National Festival of the Book. The Devil Amongst the Lawyers (2010) deals with the regional stereotyping of rural areas by national journalists. The Ballad of Tom Dooley (2011) tells the true story behind the celebrated folk song. In 2008 McCrumb was named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature.

Educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a master's degree in English from Virginia Tech, McCrumb was the first writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee. In 2005 she was honored as the Writer of the Year at Emory & Henry College.

Her novels, studied in universities throughout the world, have been translated into eleven languages, including French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Arabic, and Italian. She has lectured on her work at Oxford University, the University of Bonn-Germany, and at the Smithsonian Institution. McCrumb has also taught a writers workshop in Paris and served as writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee and at the Chautauqua Institute in western New York.[4]

In 2008 McCrumb was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History" for her career.[5]

Novels

McCrumb is the author of The Ballad Novels, a series set in the Appalachian Mountains. These books weave together the legends, geography and contemporary issues of Appalachia, and each centers on an event from North Carolina history.[6][7] She is also the author of the Elizabeth MacPherson mystery series, though her career has evolved beyond genre fiction.[8]

Ballad series

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  • McCrumb, Sharyn (2013). King's Mountain. Thomas Dunne Books. Template:ISBN
  • McCrumb, Sharyn (2014). Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past. Abingdon Press. Template:ISBN
  • McCrumb, Sharyn (2016). Prayers the Devil Answers. Atria Books. Template:ISBN
  • McCrumb, Sharyn (2017). The Unquiet Grave. Atria Books. Template:ISBN

St. Dale novels

In 2005, NASCAR racing fan McCrumb wrote St. Dale.[9] Her inspiration for the novel came from her study of medieval literature at Virginia Tech and her desire to update Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It was Dale Earnhardt who became the saint of her tale, complete with the Dale Earnhardt Pilgrimage of fans.[10]

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Elizabeth MacPherson novels

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Jay Omega novels

These are satirical novels set in the world of science fiction conventions and fandom.

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Short story collections

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Awards

Winners are in bold

Awarding body Year Award issued Work
National Daughters of the American Revolution[11] 2017 Woman of the Arts Award
West Virginia Library Association[12] 2017 Literary Merit Award
Clarksville Arts and Heritage Development Council[13] 2015 Patricia Winn Award for Southern Fiction King's Mountain
Chowan University[14] 2014 Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature
Library of Virginia[15][16] 2008 Virginia Woman in History Award
2006 People's Choice Award for Fiction St. Dale
Appalachian Writers Association[17][18][19][20] 2006 Book of the Year St. Dale
2005 Best Novel St. Dale
1992 Best Novel The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
1985 Best Novel Lovely in Her Bones
Audio Publishers Association[21] 2004 Best Recorded Book Ghost Riders
East Tennessee State University[22] 2003 Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature Ghost Riders
Flora MacDonald Award[22] 1999 Achievement in the Arts by a Woman of Scots Heritage
Shepard University and the WV Heritage Council[23] 1999 Appalachian Heritage Writer's Award
Berea College[24] 1998 Plattner Award for Best Appalachian Short Story Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Morehead State University[25] 1998 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing
Appalachian Writers Association[22] 1997 Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature
Agatha Award[26] 1995 Best Novel If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
1994 Best Novel She Walks These Hills
1992 Best Novel The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Best Short-story "Happiness is a Dead Poet"
1989 Best Short-story "A Wee Doch and Doris"
1988 Best Novel Paying the Piper
Anthony Award[27] 1995 Best Novel She Walks These Hills
Best Short-story "The Monster of Glamis"
1991 Best Novel If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
Best Short-story "The Luncheon"
"Remains to be Seen"
1990 Best Short-story "A Wee Doch and Doris"
1989 Best Paperback Original Paying the Piper
1988 Best Paperback Original Bimbos of the Death Sun
Edgar Award[28] 1988 Best Paperback Original Bimbos of the Death Sun
Sherwood Anderson Short Story Award[29] 1984 Best Short Story "Precious Jewel"
Macavity Award[30] 1995 Best Novel She Walks These Hills
1991 Best Novel If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O
Nero Award[31] 1995 Best Novel She Walks These Hills

References

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  1. ↑ "Sharyn McCrumb." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Gale Biography In Context. Web. May 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Sharyn McCrumb." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2017. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000127955/BIC?u=nclivewicc&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=e6fca62c. Accessed 5 June 2025.
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  4. ↑ Critical Study of Sharyn McCrumb's Novels. Holloway, Kimberly, ed. From a Race of Story Tellers: Critical Essays on The Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb. Atlanta: Mercer University Press, 2003.
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