Second of two parts (Part one)
Went to high school in North Carolina: Althea Gibson
Went to college in North Carolina and graduated despite having flunked his English placement test because he was imitating Faulkner: Walker Percy
Went to college in North Carolina but didn’t graduate: Shelby Foote, Emmylou Harris and Jeff MacNelly
Had three hits for Yale in a college baseball game in North Carolina: George H.W. Bush
Had to return his Olympic gold medals because he had played semipro baseball in North Carolina: Jim Thorpe
Met in North Carolina: Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll
Married in North Carolina: Horace Greeley, Walter Reed, Charlton Heston, Stephen Douglas, John Hersey and Daniel Boone
Honeymooned in North Carolina: Margret Mitchell and Woodrow Wilson (separately)
Wrote books in North Carolina: Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Kerouac
Wrote books set in North Carolina despite never having been here: Jules Verne
Wrote a book set on the Mississippi River despite never having been there because she had done her research in North Carolina instead: Edna Ferber
Got drunk in North Carolina and gave a memorable reading at Duke: Dylan Thomas
Got drunk in North Carolina and lost — forever — page 12 from his “Light in August” manuscript: William Faulkner
Didn’t get drunk in North Carolina: Carry Nation
Cut his first record in North Carolina: Bill Monroe
Cut “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (in one take!) in North Carolina: James Brown
Shot out a TV set in North Carolina: Elvis
Preached a sermon in North Carolina: P.T. Barnum
Joined the Marines in North Carolina: Art Buchwald
Crowned the Azalea Queen in North Carolina: Ronald Reagan
Visited North Carolina in the Spirit of St. Louis: Charles Lindbergh
Visited North Carolina in an autogiro: Amelia Earhart
Visited North Carolina in a carriage and got stuck in the mud: Marquis de Lafayette
Visited North Carolina on a Greyhound bus and went to jail: Joe Perkins
Visited North Carolina and found it, to his surprise, “a peacefully homogenous community where money is never mentioned, where no racial tension exists either on or under the surface; & where instead of colliding with indoctrinated automata, one meets courteous individuals! For the first time I realize what ‘America’ might have been.”: e. e. cummings