Guy Owen Papers (#4287) 1951-1981

Yaddo (Artists' colony)

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Yaddo is an artists' retreat located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo first began welcoming creative guests in 1926, but its roots extend back to the final decades of the 19th century. After the loss of their fourth child, Spencer and Katrina Trask decided to bequeath their baronial mansion and its surrounding grounds to future generations of creative men and women. Yaddo's guest list has included Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capot...

Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech (VT), formally Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute and 250 acres of nearby Solitude Farm. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named ...

Stephenson, Shelby, 1938-

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Shelby Stephenson (1938- ), poet; professor of literature and creative writing at Campbell College (now University), Buies Creek, N.C., 1974-1978, and at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (formerly Pembroke State University) after 1978; and editor of "Pembroke Magazine" beginning in 1979. From the description of Shelby Stephenson papers, 1965-2006. WorldCat record id: 31069855 Shelby Stephenson was born 14 June 1938, near Benson, N.C. The youngest ...

Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986

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Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was an author best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains. He was born in Angola, where his father was a physician at a British medical outpost. He later moved to the United States and was educated at Wichita Municipal University (now Wichita State University) in Kansas and Columbia Univeristy. Wellman served as lieutenant in World War II, after which he moved to Pine Bluff, N.C. He relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1951 and rece...

Brown Marsh Church

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Spearman, Walter

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Walter Smith Spearman (1908-1987) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1937-1978, wrote plays and short stories, wrote for numerous newspapers, and was an amatuer actor for over forty years. From the description of Walter Spearman papers, 1900-1986 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26180460 Walter Smith Spearman was born in Newberry, S.C., 9 January 1908. He attended school in Silverstreet, S.C., and in Charlotte, N.C., at Centra...

Eastern Kentucky University

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Lilly, Henry

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Walter Spearman

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Walser, Richard, 1908-1988

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Richard Gaither Walser was born in Lexington, N.C., in 1908. He received an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1933. After returning from service with the United States Naval Reserve, he taught briefly at the University of North Carolina before joining the English faculty at North Carolina State University in 1946. Walser wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them collections of works relating to various aspects of North Carolina life and literature. He also explored the work of s...

Turman, Lawrence

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Turman was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1926; attended UCLA; before becoming an independent producer, he was in the textile business; some of his films include: The young doctors (1961), I could go on singing (1963), The graduate (1967), The marriage of a young stockbroker (1970), The drowning pool (1975), and Gang (1979). From the description of Papers, 1960-1968. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38514959 Biography ...

Champion, Larry S.

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North Carolina Writers' Panel

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Denise Levertov.

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Thorne, Evelyn

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Dokey, Richard

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Richard Dokey is an author and winner of the Lawrence Foundation Prize (Michigan Quarterly Review, University of Michigan), The Glick Prize (South Dakota Review, University of South Dakota), and The Hoepfner Award (Southern Humanities Review, Auburn University). His stories have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best of the West . Dokey’s short fiction has been included in many general collections and two of his plays, "Craps" and "Funeral", have both seen productions (a manuscript o...

Baker, Donald W.

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West, John Foster, 1918-2008

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West was the author of Death in Hemingway (1949), Time was (1965), Appalachian dawn (1973), The Summer people (1973), This proud land: the Blue Ridge Mountains (1974), Wry wine (1977), Lift up your head Tom Dooley (1998), and The Ballad of Tom Dula (197- ). From the description of John Foster West papers ca. 1960-ca. 1975. (Western North Carolina Library Network). WorldCat record id: 50679546 ...

Dickey, James.

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American novelist and poet, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His southern roots are clearly evident in his writing. He is the the author of more than 17 books of poetry and 14 books of prose. From the description of Papers, 1954-1970 (inclusive), 1957-1967 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180763 Dickey is an American novelist, poet, essayist and educator. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey is the author of more than 17 books of poetry and 14 books of prose. ...

McEniry, William Hugh

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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Owen, Guy, 1925-1981?

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Guy Owen (1925-1981) received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. An author and educator, Owen founded and edited the Southern Poetry Review, edited North Carolina Folklore, and served as Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He authored numerous novels, short stories, and poems, including Season of Fear and The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man. From the description of Guy Owen papers, 1967-1982 [m...

Erskine Caldwell

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Williams, David Marshall, 1900-1975

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Elizabeth S. Ives

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North Carolina Committee to End the Indochina War

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Smith, William Jay

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William Jay Smith was born April 22, 1918, in Winnfield, LA. He followed a career as a writer and teacher in English. He is best known as a poet, both for adults and children, and has received awards and honors for his portry. He also worked as a translator, being fluent in French and Italian, and also familiar with Spanish and Russian. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vols. 2, 68 Something About the Author Autobiography Series, vol. 22 From the guide to the William ...

Ramsay, Paul, 1945-

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Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)

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Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by a group of nonconformist faculty and students from Rollins College in Florida. Headed by John Andrew Rice, they established their experimental college and community near Black Mountain, NC. Artists and writers from all over the country were attracted to Black Mountain and the college became a nurturing ground for some of the best talents of the twentieth century. Among its faculty and students were Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning...

Eudora Welty

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Ganett, George

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Scott, George Cole.

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French, Warren

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McDowell, David M.

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Lyon, Sue, 1946-....

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Delgado, Ramon

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University of West Virginia Writers' Conference

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Heathcote, Mary T.

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National Humanities Center (U.S.)

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Clarkton High School

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Taylor, William Edwards

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Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990

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Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...

Margaret Randall

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Boyd, Joe Dan, 1934-

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Pennington, Lee

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Thomas Middleton

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Morgan, Robert, 1921-1994

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000192 ...

Ammons, Archie R.

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Michael Sarrazin.

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Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996

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Samuel Talmadge Ragan (1915-1996) was managing and executive editor of the "News and Observer" (Raleigh, N.C.), 1948-1969; editor and publisher of "The Pilot" (Southern Pines, N.C.), 1969-1996; award-winning poet; writing teacher; and supporter of the arts in North Carolina. Ragan served as the first secretary of the North Carolina Department of Art, Culture, and History from 1972 to 1973. In 1982, he was named Poet Laureate of the state of North Carolina by Governor James B. Hunt. He was also c...

Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938

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Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 on a voyage between Europe and New York. Wolfe and Bernstein, the wife of a prominent New York stock broker and 18 years older than Wolfe, became lovers in Oct. 1925 and remained so for the next five years. Wolfe's 1929 novel, Look Homeward Angel, was dedicated to Bernstein. From the description of [Account of a fire / Thomas Wolfe] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 492206991 Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born October 3, 1900 in Asheville, No...

Vanderbilt University Press.

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Abbot, Mary Squire

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Owen, Guy, 1925-1981?

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Guy Owen (1925-1981) received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. An author and educator, Owen founded and edited the Southern Poetry Review, edited North Carolina Folklore, and served as Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He authored numerous novels, short stories, and poems, including Season of Fear and The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man. From the description of Guy Owen papers, 1967-1982 [m...

Armstrong, Robert G., 1917-....

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Fox, William Price

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Guy Owen.

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Barton, Lew

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Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916-2006

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Charles Edward Eaton, poet and professor, was born in Winston- Salem, N.C., received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936, studied at Princeton, and received his M.A. degree from Harvard, where he worked with Robert Frost who later recommended him to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Eaton served as Vice Consul in Brazil, 1942- 1946, and as professor of creative writing at UNC, 1946-1952. In 1950, he married Isabel Patterson of Pittsburgh. Eaton is a widely published a...

Bartlett, Elizabeth, 1924-2008

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Biography Elizabeth Bartlett, née Winters, was born on July 20, 1921 in New York City. She studied at Teachers College, receiving her BS in Education in 1941. After graduation Bartlett traveled extensively, meeting and marrying Paul Alexander Bartlett in Mexico in 1943. Throughout her life Bartlett continued to travel between the United States and Mexico, living in various cities while writing, editing, and teaching. She taught at...

Mast General Stores

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Kahn, Sy

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Turner, Kermit

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Carter, W. Horace

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W. Horace Carter (1921- ) of Tabor City, N.C., was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who was editor of the "Tabor City Tribune" and writer of books and articles on fresh-water fishing and deer and duck hunting. From the description of W. Horace Carter papers, 1920s-1990s. WorldCat record id: 31908591 W. Horace Carter of Tabor City, Columbus County, N.C., and Hawthorne, Alachua County, Fla., was born in 1921. He was the first male graduate of Endy High School ...

Governor's Awards Committee

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Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College

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Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

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American poet and critic. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in poetry, 1939. Professor of English at Harvard, 1946-48, and Rutgers, 1953-61. From the description of Letter, 1980 Feb. 4, Key West, Fla., to Henry F. Pommer, Ripon, Wis. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364896 Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. From the description of John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985). (Unknown). W...

Appalachian State University.

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Williams, Miller

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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : Jackson, Miss., to Charles Ryskamp, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875021 The short story writer and novelist Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Miss. In 1946 she published Delta wedding, her first novel. Her novel The optimist's daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. She was a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges....

Pearson, James Larkin, 1879-1981

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Green, Paul (Paul M.)

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Epithet: of Sutton Coldfield British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000975.0x00016e ...

Blair, John Frier

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Phillipson, John S.

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Hudson, Arthur Palmer

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Sauer, Caroline

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Stetson university

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Pearson, James Larkin, 1879-1981

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Stem, Thad, Jr., 1916-1980

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Thad Stem Jr. (1916-1980) of Oxford, N.C., wrote novels, poetry, and short stories and contributed editorials and short pieces to the "News and Observer" (Raleigh, N.C.), "The Pilot" (Southern Pines, N.C.), and other North Carolina newspapers. Majors works by Stem include "The Animal Fair" (1960), "Entries from Oxford" (1971), "Senator Sam Ervin's Best Stories" (1973), and "Thad Stem's Ark" (1979). Stem is featured in Timothy B. Tyson's memoir "Blood Done Sign My Name." From the desc...