— member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers — grew up
in Kingsport, Tennessee, and has lived since 1969 in Chapel Hill, where
he taught for 31 years at the University of North Carolina. He has been
co-editor of Southern Cultures and a contributing writer for
The Oxford American. His books include The Enduring South,
Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy, Whistling Dixie,
Kicking Back: Further Dispatches from the South, and (with
his wife Dale Volberg Reed)1001 Things Everyone Should Know About
the South. Minding the South, a collection of essays and
reviews, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2003.
