Sylvia Wilkinson

Sylvia Wilkinson (born 1940) was born in Durham, North Carolina in the United States. She graduated from Woman's College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1962. She received her master's degree from Hollins College (now Hollins University) in 1963 and studied at Stanford University under a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship 1965-66.

Wilkinson taught at various institutions including the Universities of North Carolina at Asheville and Chapel Hill, the College of William & Mary, Sweet Briar College, Hollins University, Washington University and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is a teaching scholar with the National Faculty. She received a number of literary awards including the Sir Walter Raleigh Award twice—in 1968 for A Killing Frost, and again in 1978 for Shadow of the Mountain, a Eugene Saxton Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the UNC - Greensboro Alumnae Service Award, and a Mademoiselle Merit Award for Literature. She has published 26 books: 7 novels for adults, 3 adult non fiction works (2 on auto racing, one on education) and 16 juveniles with automotive themes. She was a Motorsports Correspondent for Autoweek and is currently a World Book Encyclopedia contributor on auto racing. She was an auto racing timer and scorer for many years for numerous drivers including Paul Newman, Al Unser Sr., Bobby Rahal and Keke Rosberg.

In December of 2014, her seventh novel: BIG CACTUS was published by Owl Canyon Press in Boulder, Colorado.

Bibliography

Novels:

• Moss on the North Side (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)
• A Killing Frost (Houghton Mifflin, 1967)
• Cale (Houghton Mifflin, 1970)
• Shadow of the Mountain (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
• Bone of My Bones (Putnam, 1982)
• On the 7th Day, God Created the Chevrolet (Algonquin Books, 1993)
• Big Cactus (Owl Canyon Press, 2014)

Nonfiction:

• Change: A Handbook for the Teaching of English and Social Studies in the Secondary Schools (LINC Press, 1971)
• The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odyssey (Houghton Mifflin, 1973)
• Dirt Track to Glory: The Early Days of Stock Car Racing as Told by the Participants (Algonquin Books, 1983)

Juvenile Nonfiction:

• Can-Am (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Endurance Racing (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Formula Atlantic (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Formula One (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Sprint Cars (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Stock Cars (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Super Vee (Childrens Press, 1981)
• Automobiles (Childrens Press, 1982)
• Champ Cars (Childrens Press, 1982)
• The True Book of Automobiles (Childrens Press, 1982)
• Trans-Am (Childrens Press, 1983)
• Kart Racing (Childrens Press, 1985)
• I Can Be a Race Car Driver (Childrens Press, 1986)

References

• Finding Aid for the Sylvia Wilkinson Papers The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

External links

• Works by or about Sylvia Wilkinson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)