Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton (born May 20, 1944) is an American author and academic from North Carolina. He has published a dozen books, most of them novels, three of which have been adapted for film. He was a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he taught creative writing for 26 years.

Early life

Edgerton was born in Durham, North Carolina on May 20, 1944. His parents were Truma and Ernest Edgerton, who came from families of cotton and tobacco farmers, respectively. His distant cousin is author Sylvia Wilkerson.

His novels Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and The Floatplane Notebooks were banned in some schools.