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Sylvia Wilkinson

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Sylvia Jean Wilkinson (born 1940) is an American author.

She was born in Durham, North Carolina in the United States and graduated from Woman's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1962. She received her master's degree from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1963 and studied at Stanford University under a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship 1965-66.

Wilkinson taught at various institutions including the Universities of North Carolina at Asheville and Chapel Hill, the College of William & Mary, Sweet Briar College, Hollins University, Washington University and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is a teaching scholar with the National Faculty. She received a number of literary awards including the Sir Walter Raleigh Award twice—in 1968 for A Killing Frost, and again in 1978 for Shadow of the Mountain, a Eugene Saxton Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, the UNC - Greensboro Alumnae Service Award, and a Mademoiselle Merit Award for Literature. She has published 26 books: 7 novels for adults, 3 adult non fiction works (2 on auto racing, one on education) and 16 juveniles with automotive themes.

She was a Motorsports Correspondent for Autoweek and is currently a World Book Encyclopedia contributor on auto racing. She was an auto racing timer and scorer for many years for numerous drivers including Paul Newman, Al Unser Sr., Bobby Rahal and Keke Rosberg.

In December 2014, her seventh novel: Big Cactus was published by Owl Canyon Press in Boulder, Colorado.

Bibliography

Novels:

Moss on the North Side (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)
A Killing Frost (Houghton Mifflin, 1967)
Cale (Houghton Mifflin, 1970)
Shadow of the Mountain (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
Bone of My Bones (Putnam, 1982)
On the 7th Day, God Created the Chevrolet (Algonquin Books, 1993)
Big Cactus (Owl Canyon Press, 2014)

Nonfiction:

Change: A Handbook for the Teaching of English and Social Studies in the Secondary Schools (LINC Press, 1971)
The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odyssey (Houghton Mifflin, 1973)
Dirt Tracks to Glory: The Early Days of Stock Car Racing as Told by the Participants (Algonquin Books, 1983)

Juvenile Nonfiction:

Can-Am (Children's Press, 1981)
Endurance Racing (Children's Press, 1981)
Formula Atlantic (Children's Press, 1981)
Formula One (Children's Press, 1981)
Sprint Cars (Children's Press, 1981)
Stock Cars (Children's Press, 1981)
Super Vee (Children's Press, 1981)
Automobiles (Children's Press, 1982)
Champ Cars (Children's Press, 1982)
The True Book of Automobiles (Children's Press, 1982)
Trans-Am (Children's Press, 1983)
Kart Racing (Children's Press, 1985)
I Can Be a Race Car Driver (Children's Press, 1986)

References

Finding Aid for the Sylvia Wilkinson Papers{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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