“A Visitor’s Guide to the Literary South,” by Trish Foxwell. The Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vt. 2013. 208 pp. $19.95.
SALISBURY — “A Visitor’s Guide to the Literary South” guides readers and travelers to sites of well-known writers of the South. This South includes North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi. That’s a lot of states, and if you’re a regular reader, you know there are a goodly number of writers from these states who deserve recognition.
Foxwell, who has written in a number of national publications, is also the author of “Historic Hotels and Hideaways” and has lived and traveled throughout the South.
For whatever reason — the constraints of space or time — Foxwell sticks with big names, like William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor. There are some authors she writes about who are not household names, but they may be in their respective states.
North Carolina is chock full of writers, such as Salisbury’s John Hart, who made the New
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