Charles Frazier

Charles Robinson Frazier (* November 4, 1950 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an excellent with the National Book Award American writer.

Life

Frazier graduated in 1973 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mid-1970s, he reached for further studies the Master of Arts degree from Appalachian State University and his Ph.D. in English at the University of South Carolina in 1986. He lives with his wife Catherine, a teacher, and his daughter Annie on a farm near Raleigh, where he breeds horses.

Career as a writer

His first novel Cold Mountain is about the journey of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate towards the end of the American Civil War. The story describes the culture and the nature of the mountains of North Carolina and based on the local history and the stories of Frazier's father about Frazier's great-great uncle William Pinkney Inman. Inman, who came from the area around Cold Mountain in western North Carolina, served until his desertion after two wounds in the Confederate Army and is supposedly buried in a local cemetery. The real Inman served as an ordinary soldier in the F Company of the 25th North Carolina Infantry, and his regiment was involved in the siege of Petersburg, and also thinking of the crater battle.

The novel was awarded in 1997 with the National Book Award and was made ​​into a film in 2003 by Anthony Minghella with the same title.

Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons was released in October 2006 and describes the path of a man in a century of change in America. He also plays in the West North Carolina and describes the encounters of a white man with the Cherokee before, during and after their relocation to Oklahoma. Based on the success of his previous book, he got on Thirteen Moons an advance in the amount of eight million dollars.