27 Views of Asheville
For 20 years, Rob Neufeld has written about the literature and history of western North Carolina for theAsheville Citizen-Times. He has led acclaimed region-wide reading programs for seven years as the director of Together We Read and now as the director of Mountain Lit. Neufeld also created The Read on WNC (thereadonwnc.ning.com), a website for regional books and heritage. Ron Rash called Neufeld "the person who has done more than anyone else to promote reading in this region." Neufeld has published books of local interest and collaborated with author Gail Godwin onThe Making of a Writer: Journals, vols. 1 and 2.