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Charles Frazier

(b.1950)

Charles Frazier lives in North Carolina, where Cold Mountain, his first novel, is set, and where he and his wife have been developing a horse farm for the last five years. He has taught in universities, written travel books and had one short story published. Cold Mountain is based on stories of his ancestors' experiences during the Civil War, handed down through the generations.

Awards: NBA (1997) see all

Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction

Novels

   Cold Mountain (1997)
   Thirteen Moons (2006)
   Nightwoods (2011)
   Varina (2018)
   The Trackers (2023)

Awards

1997 National Book Award for Fiction : Cold Mountain

Award nominations

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier recommends

Dancing Woman (2025)
Elaine Neil Orr
"Brimming with vivid description, deeply rooted in time and place, and with a fascinating cast of complicated, enigmatic characters, Dancing Woman is ultimately a story of longing - for a sense of self, community, redemption, and healing - and a profound exploration of the transformative power of art in its many forms."

True North (2024)
Andrew J Graff
"True North is an engaging, character-driven portrait of a marriage under pressure from financial deception and conflicting desires. Graff writes about the outdoors, particularly rivers and river rafting, with an immersive blend of knowledge and passion."

The Say So (2023)
Julia Franks
"Julia Franks writes wonderfully and knowledgeably, with a time eye for the textures of the physical world."

Black Cloud Rising (2022)
David Wright Faladé
"Wright Falade's richly detailed, grippingly told story breathes life into a revolutionary moment when the U.S. moved a vital step forward toward achieving the ideals we've always proclaimed."

And the Crows Took Their Eyes (2020)
Vicki Lane
"Lane's richly detailed vision of the past expertly underpins a dark story of complex divided loyalties in an isolated, war-torn mountain community."

Even As We Breathe (2020)
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
"Even As We Breathe is a fresh, welcome, and much needed addition to the fiction of the Appalachian South and its neglected people and places. Clapsaddle creates characters with sensitivity, subtlety, humor, and warmth. A splendid debut by a writer well worth following."

Southernmost (2018)
Silas House
"This beautifully crafted novel brims with a spirit of hopeful humanity as one man’s effort to make himself a better person casts ripples in the world around him."

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires (2017)
Daren Wang
"Splendid - a distinctive clear-eyed perspective on a fresh corner of the Civil War."

Darktown (2016)
(Darktown, book 1)
Thomas Mullen
"Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiledcrime in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our owncontinuing struggles with race today."

Land of Enchantment (2015)
Liza Wieland
"A beautifully written, dizzingly knowledgeable examination of the intersection between art and life. It is the best novel I've read in the past year."

To Catch the Lightning (2008)
Alan Cheuse
"The photography and cinema of Edward Curtis exist at the intersection of art, history, anthropology, and technology. He was an essentially American kind of genius, and Alan Cheuse has transformed his life into compelling fiction that digs deep into the mystery and sacrifice and selfishness of creative vision."

Cataloochee (2007)
Wayne Caldwell
"A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America."

The Dress Lodger (1999)
Sheri Holman
"Sheri Holman vividly and convincingly conjures a fully-textured fictive past peopled with strange and true characters."

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