Chappell, Fred, 1936-....

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Birth 1936-05-28
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English,

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Author and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

From the description of Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2010 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19465036

From the description of Fred Chappell Papers, 1944-2003 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122569745

Fred Chappell is a poet and an author who has won numerous awards for his writings, including the Rockefeller Foundation Grant; the Nation Institute and American Academy award in literature; the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup; the North Carolina Award in Literature; the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) Book Award for fiction; and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He spent most of his career as an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and also served as Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002.

Dabney Stuart is Chappell's close friend and is also an author and a poet. He is a retired English professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In addition to writing his own books and poems, Stuart served as editor of Shenandoah literary journal from 1988-1995.

From the guide to the Dabney Stuart-Fred Chappell Correspondence, 1984-2009, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

1936, May 28 Born in Canton, N.C., to James Taylor and Anne (Davis) Taylor 1959, Aug. 2 Married Susan Nicholls 1960 Birth of son, Heath 1961 B.A., Duke University 1964 M.A., Duke University 1964 Member of English Department Faculty, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1966 Rockefeller Foundation Grant 1968 National Institute and American Academy award in literature 1971 Prix de Meilleur des Lettres Etrangers, Académie Française, for Dagon 1972 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup for The World Between the Eyes 1973 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for The Gaudy Place 1978 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup for River: A Poem 1979 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup for Bloodfire: A Poem 1980 North Carolina Award in Literature 1985 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, Yale University Library 1988 Named Excellence Foundation Professor, Burlington Industries Professorship at UNC-G 1993 T.S. Eliot Award, Ingersoll Prizes in Literature and the Humanities 1997 2002 Poet Laureate of North Carolina 2000 SEBA (Southeast Booksellers Association) Book Award, Fiction 2010 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, North Carolina Humanities Council

From the guide to the Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2013 and undated, (Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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