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BOOKS

Hatteras Light. Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986; Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, trade paper, 1997.

Brilliant Passage. Nonfiction. Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum Press, 1989.

Cape Fear Rising. Novel. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1994; trade paper 1997; Excerpted in North Carolina Literary Review, Vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1994.

Desert Kill.  Novel. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., July, 1994; London: Piatkus: 1995.

Creative Nonfiction--Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life. Nonfiction. Story Press, March 1996 ; trade paper 1998; Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Writer's Digest Book Club Selection; used in many university writing programs and by National Geographic Explorer television.

Writing A Book That Makes A Difference. Story Press,  2000.

Writing Creative Nonfiction.  Co-editor with Carolyn Forché, Associated Writing Programs/Story Press, 2001.

Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception. Dutton hardcover 2002; Plume softcover 2002.

SCRIPTS

"1898: An American Coup." One-hour radio drama produced by Aileen LeBlanc for WHQR public radio, Wilmington, N.C., broadcast Nov. 10, 1998.

"The Kingdom of Siam," "Partners in Progress," and "Planes, Cars and Tourists." Three half-hour documentaries for Globe Watch, WUNC-TV, broadcast November 1997 in the U.S. and December 1997 in Asia.

"Treasure Coast-- The Natural Heritage of the North Carolina Shore."  One- hour documentary. Chapel Hill: WUNC-TV, premier broadcast Sept. 13, 1997.

"RiverRun-- Down the Cape Fear to the Sea." One-hour documentary. Chapel Hill: WUNC-TV, premier broadcast June 13, 1994. Winner of Silver Reel Award from ITVA.

"Hong Kong Yesterday: Last Crown Colony in Asia," "Hong Kong Today: The Cult of Money," and "Hong Kong Tomorrow: The Future of Freedom." Three half-hour documentaries for Globe Watch, WUNC-TV, broadcast Spring 1994.

"Korea: The Hermit Kingdom," "Korea: Educated for Success," and "Korea: A Nation Divided." Three half-hour documentaries for Globe Watch, WUNC-TV, broadcast 1994.

"Tales for the Hour Between the Dog and the Wolf." Four short fictions with introduction after the paintings of Robert Godfrey. Commissioned by St. John's Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC, and presented in multi-media Jan. 18th and Feb. 14th, 1991.

RADIO ESSAYS

"Death With Dignity." "All Things Considered," National Public Radio, July 1991.

"Spelling." "All Things Considered," National Public Radio, May 1992.

160 radio essays for NPR affiliate WHQR, Wilmington, NC.

SHORT FICTION

"Diamond Reo." Soundings East, Salem State College, Spring/Summer 1984.

"Winslow." Puerto Del Sol, New Mexico State University, Vol. 20, No. 2, Fall 1984.

"Death by Reputation." New England Review/ Bread Loaf Quarterly, Spring 1986. Reprinted in This Is Where We Live-- Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, edited by Michael McFee, from University of North Carolina Press, October 2000.

"Homing." Amherst Review, Amherst College, Vol. XIV, 1986; Opening passage permafrost, Fall 1985.

"The Ticking Tomb." Hayden's Ferry Review, Arizona State University, Spring 1988.

"Hide Me." The Arts Journal, Vol. 16, No. 7, April 1991.

"Night Train to Warsaw." Hayden's Ferry Review 6, Arizona State University, Spring/Summer 1991.

"The World Walks By On Two Legs." In collaboration with graduate fiction workshop; accompanied by an essay on the process: "A Confederacy of Authors--Eight Voices Telling the Story." The Crescent Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 1992.

"Stepping into Flight." Carolina Style, Summer 1994.

"Sam Mobutu." Chapter 11 of Pete & Shirley--The Great Tarheel Novel. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press, 1995.

"Gloriana." New Letters, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, Vol. 65, No. 3, 1999, 37-46.

"The Man Who Fell From the Sky." Short Story. Controlled Burn, Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI, Winter 2000.

"Miracle Boy." New Letters, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, Vol. 66, No., 4, 2000, 49-63.

"Four Tales for the Hour Between the Dog and the Wolf." Arts & Letters-- a Journal of Contemporary Culture, Georgia College & State University, Issue Five, Spring 2001, 67-76.

CREATIVE NONFICTION/ ESSAYS

"Hemingway's Paris--A Moveable Feast Revisited." Article/Essay. The World & I, Vol. 5, No. 8, August 1990.

"Who Do We Think We Are?" Essay. Associated Writing Programs Chronicle, September 1990.

"Of Miracles, Faith, and Family--The Veneration of the Virgin in Poland." Article/Essay. The World & I, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1991.

"The Old Country in a New Age." Article/Essay. Family heritage in post- revolution Poland. The World & I, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 1991.

"Do You Ever Make Up Your Own Stories?" Essay with excerpt from ms. novel Pacifico. Hawai'i Review, Fall 1991.

"The Author Reinvents Himself--the Fiction of Tim O'Brien." Critical Essay. The World & I, Vol. 7, No. 8, August 1992.

"What Do We Believe? The American Writer's Search for Values." Essay. The World & I, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 1992.

"The Calm of the Sea." Personal Essay. Carolina Style, Premiere Issue, 1994.

 "Death With Dignity." Personal Essay. Raise the Issues. Carol Numrich, ed. White Plains: Longman in association with National Public Radio, 1994.

"The Great American War Novels." Essay on classic World War II novels by Norman Mailer, James Jones, Saul Bellow, and others. The World & I, Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1995.

"Moving Story." An encounter with William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice while working as a long-haul trucker for North American Van Lines in Books of Passage, David Perkins, ed. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press/ The News and Observer Books, 1996.

"Down to the Sea." Close to Home– Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, John F. Blair, 1996.

"A Novel Citizen." Essay/Review. The World & I, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1996.

"Maria." Personal essay. Grand Tour, Spring 1996.

"Live Ammo in the Literary Canon." Essay/ Review. The World & I, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1997.

"Creating Discoveries for Creative Nonfiction." Article adapted from a chapter in Creative Nonfiction. Writer’s Digest, Feb. 1997.

"Testimonials of Delight and Reason." Essay/Review. The World & I, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1998.

"God, the Mysterious Stranger." Essay/Review. The World & I, Vol. 13, No. 3, March 1998.

"What They Don’t Tell You About Hurricanes." Personal Essay. Creative Nonfiction, No. 11, Fall 1998; reprinted in the anthology Eye of the Storm, Coastal Carolina Press, Spring 2000. 

"The Mad Maximalist Strikes Again." Essay/Review. The World & I, Vol. 14, No. 3, March 1999.

"An Architecture of Light: Structuring the Novel and the Short Story Collections." Essay/Chapter. Creating Fiction AWP/Story Press 1999.

"Facing Eternity Alone: Ernest Hemingway, man and writer, is a study in contradictions." Essay. The World & I, Vol. 14, No. 11, Nov. 1999.

"Writing Creative Nonfiction." Article adapted from chapter in Creative Nonfiction. The Writer’s Guide to Creativity, Vol. 25.

"Cape Fear: Historic Gateway to the Atlantic." Article. Wildlife in North Carolina, Nov. 1999.

"Rebuilding Turtle Harbour." Personal essay. Our State, Vol. 67, No. 8, Jan. 2000.

"Hardball." Personal essay. River Teeth, a journal of nonfiction, Ashland Univ., Winter 2000. Reprinted in Baseball--the American National Pastime in Literature and Art, edited by David Colbert, Time Life Books, 2001.

"The Family Who Lived in the River." Personal essay, Fourth Genre, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2001, 86-87.

"More Things in Heaven and Earth" (creative nonfiction). River Teeth: a journal of nonfiction narrative. Winter 2004; Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2005.

"The Paranoid Nurse" (creative nonfiction). Brevity 13. Spring 2003; Reprinted in The Best of Brevity in Creative Nonfiction 27, Fall 2005.

"Writing for Grace" (essay). The Tampa Review, Fall 2005.

"Bear Country" (personal essay). Chautauqua Literary Review, Issue 3, 2006.

"The Thirteenth Hour: The Wreck of the Sailboat Morning Dew and a Child’s Cry in the Dark" (creative nonfiction).River Teeth, Spring 2006.

"The Art of Creative Research" (essay) The Writer’ Chronicle, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Vol. 39, No. 2, October/ November 2006.

FORTHCOMING

Chautauqua: 20th Anniversary of the Chautauqua Writers' Center. Anthology, co-editor with Jill Gerard. Chautauqua Institution and The Publishing Laboratory of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2008.

"The Is the Story I Want To Tell." Short story. Water-Stone Review, 2008.