I'm honored to be in wonderful company as a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. The other finalists, whose work shows fascinating aspects of our region, are Anne Chesky Smith – Murder at Asheville’s Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger’s Killer; Lance Greene – Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears; John Ross – Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time; and winner Brent Martin – George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina. Congrats to all!