Bland Simpson is the author of six books: Heart of the Country, A Novel of Southern Music; The Great Dismal, A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir; The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey, A Nonfiction Novel; Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian’s Coastal Plain; Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals, The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering, A Nonfiction Novel; and The Inner Islands, A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle. Into the Sound Country and Inner Islands also feature photography by his wife, conservationist Ann Cary Simpson. Bland Simpson has become an authority on Eastern North Carolina’s mysteries, geography and culture. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC Chapel Hill, and he is the long-time pianist for The Red Clay Ramblers, the Tony Award-winning stringband. http://blandsimpson.com/http://english.unc.edu/faculty/simpsonb.html

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