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WILMINGTON — Philip Gerard left us on November 7, 2022. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 7, 1955. Though he lived in many places, including Newark…

WILMINGTON — It was a long and winding road that brought Philip Gerard to Wilmington, North Carolina. But a road well worth traveling. Though his journey came…

Philip Gerard contended that the unhealed wounds and unresolved issues from the Civil War were a major driver of today’s Great American Divide. His next book idea, Toward a More Perfect Union: Why America Lost the Civil War and How to Win It Now, will remain unwritten. But he offers some of the ideas that would have gone into that book in other places. We take a closer look at his consistency and courage in this remembrance of a rich, well-lived, albeit abbreviated life.

Gerard was perhaps best known for "Cape Fear Rising," his 1994 historical novel based on the Wilmington coup and massacre of 1898.

Wilmington writer Philip Gerard's "North Carolina in the 1940s" is the first in a series. "North Carolina in the 1950s" is due for release in March.