Dannye Romine Powell Papers, 1975-1999

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Dannye Romine Powell Papers, 1975-1999

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Dannye Romine Powell is an author and book editor for the . Charlotte Observer The collection includes correspondence, legal documents, clippings, and other materials relating to Dannye Romine Powell's tenure as book editor and columnist at the , as well as her work as an author and poet. Much of the correspondence is from North Carolina writers. Correspondents include novelists Doris Betts, Lee Smith, Gail Godwin, Kaye Gibbons, Reynolds Price, Simmons Jones, Josephine Humphreys, Fred Chappell, Lawrence Naumoff, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Louise Shivers, Jonellen Heckler, Mignon Ballard, and Shelby Hearon; poets Ruth Moose, Charles Edward Eaton, Sam Ragan, Mary Kratt, and Harriet Doar; and editors. Other letters are from readers commenting on Powell's articles or are from book reviewers. Also included are letters and other papers relating to Powell's 5 July 1987 article about adult children of alcoholics and to her 26 June 1999 magazine article about Kay Smith, AKA Pamela Rodgers, who escaped from a Columbia, S.C., prison in 1978 and started a new life in Maryland before being recaptured in 1988. Charlotte Observer Charlotte Observer Charlotte Observer Charlotte Observer Charlotte Observer Parade

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Powell, Dannye Romine

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Dannye Romine Powell is a journalist and poet from Charlotte, N.C. Born in Miami, Fla., she graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in English. From 1975 to 1992, she was book editor for the Charlotte Observer and continued with the paper after 1992 as a columnist. Powell is the author of Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers (1994) and two books of poetry, At Every Wedding Somebody Stays Home (1993) and The Ecstasy of Regret (2002). Her poetry has appeared in The Pa...