Charles Frazier

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Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an award-winning American historical novelist.

Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1986.

His first novel, Cold Mountain (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. ISBN 0-87113-679-1), traces the journey of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War. The work is rich in the culture and sensibilities of the North Carolina mountains and was based on local history and stories handed down by Frazier's father about Frazier's great-great-uncle.

The novel won the 1997 National Book Award and was adapted as a film of the same title by Anthony Minghella in 2003.

Frazier's second novel Thirteen Moons was published in October 2006 by Random House, and traces the story of one man across a century of change in America. Based on the success of Cold Mountain, Frazier was offered an $8 million dollar advance for Thirteen Moons.[1]