Jackson, David Kelly.

Variant names

Nationality: Americans,

Language: English,

Biographical notes:

1908 Born in Gastonia, N.C. 1929 B.A., English, Duke University 1931 M.A., English, Duke University 1934 Published Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger 1936 Published The Contributors and Contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger circa 1936 1944 Employed by Duke University Press, working mainly on the serial American Literature 1945 Employed by Home Security Life Insurance Company, Durham, N.C. 1973 Retired from Home Security Life as Assistant Vice President and renewed Poe research 1987 Published The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1847, co-authored with Dwight Thomas 2000 Died in July

From the guide to the David Kelly Jackson Papers, 1850, 1925-1991 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)