Administered by the State Department of Cultural Resources; recognizes notable attainments of North Carolinians in the fields of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, and Public Service.
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Recipients of the North Carolina Award
Author:
- Abbott, Anthony S.
- Adcock, Elizabeth Sharp
- Ammons, Archie Randolf
- Angelou, Maya
- Applewhite, James W.
- Barrax, Sr., Gerald William
- Bauer, Margaret Donovan
- Bayes, Ronald Homer
- Betts, Doris Waugh
- Bevington, Helen Smith
- Byer, Kathryn Stripling
- Chappell, Fred Davis
- Daniels, Jonathan Worth
- Dargan, Olive Tilford
- Davis, Burke
- Dykeman Stokely, Wilma
- Eaton, Charles Edward
- Edgerton, Clyde Carlyle
- Ehle, Jr., John Marsden
- Ethridge, Willie Snow
- Fitz-Simons, Foster
- Fletcher, Inglis Clark
- Franklin, John Hope
- Frazier, Charles Robinson
- Gibbons, Kaye
- Golden, Harry Lewis
- Green, Jaki Shelton
- Green, Paul Eliot
- Gurganus, Allan
- Harrelson, Walter Joseph
- Harris, Bernice Kelly
- Hart, John
- Johnson, Gerald White
- Kenan, Randall Garrett
- Leuchtenburg, William Edward
- Linney, Romulus
- Maron, Margaret B.
- McCorkle, Jill Collins
- Miller, Heather Ross
- Mitchell, Joseph Quincy
- Moore, Lenard Duane
- Morgan, Robert Ray
- Niven, Penelope
- Owen, Jr., Guy
- Parker, Michael
- Patton, Frances Gray
- Pierce, Ovid Williams
- Powell, William Stevens
- Price, Edward Reynolds
- Ragan, Samuel Talmadge
- Rash, Ron
- Rooke, Leon
- Rounds, Glen Harold
- Royster, Vermont Connecticut
- Rubin, Jr., Louis Decimus
- Russell, Charles Phillips
- Smith, Lee
- Spencer, Elizabeth
- Stem, Jr., Thaddeus Garland
- Stephenson, Shelby
- Walser, Richard Gaither
- Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Wellman, Manly Wade
- Wicker, Thomas Grey
- Williams, Jonathan Chamberlain
- Wilson, Emily Herring
