Long, Virginia Love

Virginia Love Long (Virginia L. Rudder) was born in 1941 in Roxboro, N.C. She attended Catawba College, 1958-1961, and there met fellow student and poet Amon Liner. After college, she married Don Ray Bagby and pursued a journalism career, working primarily for the Roxboro, N.C., Courier-Times . She received numerous state and national awards for her work in poetry and journalism. She published her first book, After the Ifaluk and Other Poems in 1976, and another, The Gallows Lord, in 1978. As of 1978 she had two sons.

From the guide to the Virginia Love Long Papers, 1958-1976, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

Virginia Love Long (Virginia L. Rudder (1941- )), journalist and poet, native of Hurdle Mills, N.C., studied at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., 1958-1961. She then married and began a career in journalism with the Roxboro, N.C., Courier-Times, and in the early 1970s received numerous awards for her work in poetry and journalism. Her first book was "After the Ifaluk and Other Poems" (1976). She later published "The Gallows Lord" (1978). She married first Don Ray Bagby of North Carolina and later California, and appears to have married second Harry Rudder of Florida. As of 1978, she had two sons.

From the description of Virginia Love Long papers, 1958-1978. WorldCat record id: 25641935