Laurence AveryLaurence Avery had a decades-long career as teacher and scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he served as chairman of the English department. He has published numerous articles on British and American playwrights and six books, among them; A Southern Lie: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981, winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award for distinguished contributions to the study of Southern literature. Avery also published the definitive edition of Paul Green's play, The Lost Colony. In 2006 Dr. Avery received the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association's R. Hunt Parker Award for significant contributions to North Carolina literature. In 2013, Avery published his first book of poems, Mountain Gravity .The poems in this collection, accessible and erudite at once, touch the reader with historical stories of American Indians who lived in the North Carolina mountains, of contemporary Southern families maturing in a fast paced world, and of Carolina flora and fauna, beloved by Avery, adapting to changing habitats in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Read More Read Less