Charles Frazier appears at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. There is something admirable about Charles Frazier’s steadfastness and commitment. He was 45 years old when ...

Through no fault of his own, the North Carolina writer Charles Frazier fell from everybody's favorite success story to a symbol of the publishing industry's profligacy. After he came out of nowhere in ...

NIGHTWOODS By Charles Frazier Random House, $26 259 pages Novelist Charles Frazier clearly agrees with Robert Frost’s description of woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” especially the dark and deep part ...

With his third novel -- after “Cold Mountain” and “13 Moons” -- literary heavyweight Charles Frazier returns to Appalachia but leaves behind the 19th century to set his spooky but slow-moving story in ...

Charles Frazier has made his name as a novelist by exploring the history of the American South, starting with his extraordinarily successful saga about the Civil War, “Cold Mountain.” His second work ...

In his third novel, "Nightwoods," Charles Frazier returns us to the side porch of Heaven, the Blue Ridge Mountains of his native North Carolina. Here, he tells a plain, old story about people who ...

The American ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote that to possess an awareness of the environment is to understand that we live in a world of wounds, but it is just as true that a novelist as astute and ...

Landscape played a big role in Charles Frazier’s bestselling 1997 novel, “Cold Mountain,” which was adapted into a movie of the same name. The book, its inside cover lined with a map of the southern ...

Readers should likewise grant themselves a luxurious length of time to read his work. Nightwoods, like its predecessors, contains passages of such beauty and lyricism that you can't help but want to ...

How we survive has long been the subject of fiction. How we are shaped by our experience perhaps even more so. The characters in Charles Frazier’s latest novel rely on guiding principles they have ...