Wright, Stuart T.

Stuart Wright was the owner and publisher of Palaemon Press Limited, a private press that published books, pamphlets and broadsides by Southern authors. He was a bibliographer and collector of Southern literature.

From the description of Stuart Wright Collection, 1896-1988. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 53980783

Stuart Wright (1948-) attended Roxboro (N.C.) High School and Wake Forest University, where he received B.A. degrees in German and Music. He received his master's degree in Southern Studies in 1973 and a second master's degree in U.S. History in 1980, both from Wake Forest University. In the late 1970s and through much of the 1980s, Wright served as Lecturer in Education at Wake Forest.

Since 1977 Wright has published, in the form of broadsides and limited editions, poetry and essays by A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, William Goyen, George Garrett, and Eudora Welty, among others. He also compiled bibliographies of several writers, including Andrew Lytle, Donald Davies, Reynolds Price, Robert Morgan, Dickey, and Ammons. He also edited The Conference Letters of Benjamin H. Freeman and The Recollections of A. D. Reynolds. With F. D. Bridgewater, he translated The Great Cavalry Battle of Brandy Station by Heres von Borcke and Justus Scheibert. Wright was a member of the Grolier Club from 1980 to 1998, when he moved to England.

Description taken from the finding aid to the Stuart T. Wright Papers, 1977-1986, at the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Stuart Wright Collection at Joyner Library, East Carolina University.

From the guide to the Stuart Wright Bibliographic Collection of George Garrett, 1951-1993 and undated, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Stuart Wright was born 30 March 1948. He attended Roxboro (N.C.) High School and Wake Forest University, graduating from the latter in 1970 with B.A. degrees in German and music. After attending the London School of Chiropody/Smae Institute in England, he returned to Wake Forest in 1972, and the following year he received his Master's degree in southern studies. His formal academic training concluded with post-graduate work at Wake Forest in American studies in 1975.

Since 1977 Wright has published, in the form of broadsides and limited editions, poetry and essays by A. R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, William Goyen, George Garrett, and Eudora Welty, among others. He also compiled bibliographies of several writers, including Andrew Lytle, Donald Davies, Reynolds Price, Robert Morgan, Dickey, and Ammons. He also edited The Conference Letters of Benjamin H. Freeman and The Recollections of A. D. Reynolds . With F. D. Bridgewater, he translated The Great Cavalry Battle of Brandy Station by Heres von Borcke and Justus Scheibert.

From the guide to the Stuart T. Wright Papers, 1977-1986, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)