William Legette Blythe - (?  -1993)

Huntersville
By Courtney F.

I. Biography

William Legette Blythe is native of Huntersville, North Carolina. Legette Blythe graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the original Playmakers and a classmate of Thomas Wolfe. After graduating, Blythe became a reporter at the Charlotte News, and he later joined the staff at the Charlotte Observer. He wrote many Biblical novels, biographies of widely known North Carolinians, and symphonic dramas based on Charlotte Mecklenburg County North Carolina.  Legette Blythe won the Mayflower Award for the best nonfiction work by a North Carolinian in 1953 for Miracle in the Hills. William Legette Blythe died in 1993 in Huntersville, North Carolina.

I. Literary Works

William Henry Belk
Alexandriana
Crown Tree
Voice in the Wilderness
Man on Fire
Miracle In the Hills
Bold Galilean
Soul on Fire
Mountain Doctor
The Stable Boy Who Stayed in Bethlehem
When Was Jesus Born
Marshal Ney
38th Evac
A Tear for Judas
Call Down the Storm
Gift From the Hills
Hear Me, Pilate
Mett Julis Abernathy
Robert Lee Stowe
James W. Davis

II. Huntersville, North Carolina

William LeGette Blythe is from Huntersville, North Carolina. Some of Huntersville is in the country, but a lot of it is developed now with business parks, homes, schools, and shopping areas. Cornelius and Charlotte surround Huntersville. There are about 15,000 people in Huntersville. In Huntersville there is Lake Norman which is a 500-mile perimeter lake.

IV. Blythe's Books

William LeGette Blythe wrote mostly Biblical books or biographies for adults, not children. His books were written to explain God. His biographies are mostly on well-known North Carolinians. They are usually on unknown important people.

III. Blythe on the Web

http://www.Meckhis.org
http://www.twbookmark.com
http://www.hit.uib.no
http://library.uncwil.edu/wolfe/pubbio.htm
http://www.ncwriters.org
http://www.historiccharlotte.org
http://www.stockton.edu

This essay was submitted by a student of Leslie Andres, a teacher at Lake Norman Charter School in Huntersville, North Carolina.