Nan Graham
CommentatorNan Graham has deep roots in Alabama and Carolina soil. She graduated from Tuscaloosa High School and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with an AB in English. She obtained her Masters degree from The Citadel in Charleston. In 1995 Nan began broadcasting her bi- weekly commentaries on WHQR Public Radio in Wilmington. She continues these bi-weekly broadcasts along with teaching at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in the Honors College. She has taught for thirty-eight years...everything from first grade to graduate level university courses...(the last is far easier than first grade!).
A lifelong Southerner, Nan Graham's spirited view of her cock-eyed family and friends has delighted public radio listeners for years. Nan's second book, In a Magnolia Minute...Secrets of a Late Bloomer as well as her first, Turn South at the Next Magnolia: Directions from a Life-long Southerner, were both on the SEBA (Southeastern Booksellers' Association) bestseller list. The books are compilations of her best and most popular radio commentaries which have been broadcast continuously since January 1995.
Nan is presently working on her third book of commentaries and a novel set in post WWII Wilmington.
You can visit her website at nangraham.com.
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Commentator Nan Graham revisits one of literature's favorite birds for a closer look at that certain "je ne sais quoi. " From Dickens to Poe, The Raven is…
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From moonshine jugs to homely tchotchkes, commentator Nan Graham observes that every trinket was once someone's treasure, and every treasure has a story.…
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The bone-shuddering recollection that Proust details in Remembrance of Things Past is relatable. Upon tasting a cookie--a Madeleine, to be specific--he is…
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When Commentator Nan Graham recently acquired a rattan rhino, she couldn't have been happier. She and her new companion, the copper-eyed "Barbara…
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The Sixties are back, man, and no, it's not a hallucination. But don't look for the free love and flower power of the late sixties. The hit TV show Mad…
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Signs appear most everywhere nowadays: on the sides of buses, the backs of cars, sometimes on the back of the head of the person in front of…
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After Hurricane Irene, Commentator Nan Graham was counting her blessings that the storm had brought no damage her way. But it did bring her something. Out…
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In her 7th grade English class, Nan Graham wasn't the only one who grimaced at the thought of diagramming sentences. Her teacher, Miss Hogan, strayed far…
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"'Plato observed a long while ago that those stomachs are not the best that reject all sorts of food,'" both a quote from Voltaire's Candide and a wise…
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When Commentator Nan Graham heard the news that a couple of brothers from Pennsylvania had stolen a bridge in nearby New Castle, she wasn't as shocked as…