North Carolina Literary Trails link this state’s landscapes, urban and rural, to the defining voices of writers and map them into journeys the literary traveler will be eager to make. The Trails ultimately will extend from the mountains across the Piedmont to the coastal plain.

The Purpose of the Literary Trails Guide
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains invites residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina from the perspective of writers who have lived here or spent time here. The book comprises a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state. It directs curious travelers to the places that have figured importantly in writers’ lives and work.