Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986

Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was an author best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains. He was born in Angola, where his father was a physician at a British medical outpost. He later moved to the United States and was educated at Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas and Columbia Univeristy. Wellman served as lieutenant in World War II, after which he moved to Pine Bluff, N.C. He relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1951 and received the Edgar Allen Poe Award for nonfiction in 1955.

From the guide to the Manly Wade Wellman Letters, ., 1972, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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