Authors appreciate Charlotte’s diversity and vitality, tout its vibrant arts and food scenes, and praise surging Uptown. Yet they don’t shy away from its ongoing struggles: cultural, political, and economic. The views create a literary montage of Charlotte, reflecting its social, historic, and creative fabric.
Jack Claiborne is a native Charlottean, the author of seven books, and a retired associate editor and columnist for the Charlotte Observer. He is the former assistant to the chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.