Virginia Spencer Carr earned her Ph.D. at Florida State University in 1969. She taught courses in the American novel, American writers and poets, literature of the South, and the writing of biography at Georgia State University. The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers was her first book, and was awarded the Francis Butler Simkins Prize from the Southern Historical Society and Longwood College for distinguished writing in Southern History. Her second book, Dos Passos: A Life, was selected Best Book of Nonfiction for 1984 by the Dixie Council of Author and Journalists. Dr. Carr holds an honorary doctorate in humane letters (Lynchburg College). She also was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland (1980), and held the 1993 Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Theater History at Harvard University.
From the guide to the Virginia Spencer Carr Papers, and undated, bulk 1970-1977, 1867-2009, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
