North Carolina Literary Festival Records, 1995-2009

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North Carolina Literary Festival Records, 1995-2009

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In 1998, the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsored a weekend literary festival for readers and writers. Open to the public, this inaugural statewide event had as its focus Over 100 writers appeared on the festival program, giving talks, leading forums and panel discussions, and reading from their works. Subsequent festivals were held in 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009, alternately hosted by the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University. The 2002 and 2009 festivals were at UNC-Chapel Hill. A Celebration of Southern Writers & Readers. The 1998 festival records largely reflect the work of festival organizer Rachel Davies and consist of planning documents, correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, publications, photographs, publicity materials and post-festival evaluations. Writers who figure significantly in the records include Daphne Athas, Doris Betts, John Grisham, Allan Gurganus, Louis Rubin, and the Carolina African American Writers' Collective. The Addition of April 2012 consists of materials relating to the planning and organizing of the 2002 North Carolina Literary Festival, chiefly reflecting the work of program director Caroline Rowe Martens. There are also files containing biographical information, photographs, contracts, and other materials pertaining to the various festival participants, including Julia Alvarez, Allan Gurganus, Robert Morgan, Randall Kenan, and Clyde Edgerton, and five videotapes of participating authors Fred Chappell, Pam Durban, Randall Kenan, Michael McFee, and Alan Shapiro. Also included is the website for the 2009 North Carolina Literary Festival.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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Betts, Doris

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Doris June Waugh Betts was a white North Carolina author and Alumni Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was born 4 June 1932 in Statesville, N.C., and graduated from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C. Betts married Lowry Matthews Betts (1930-2007) in 1952 and with him had three children: Doris LewEllyn, David Lowry, and Erskine Moore. Betts began her writing career as a newspaper reporter. She firs...

Allan Gurganus

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Louis Rubin

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Carolina African American Writers' Collective

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Daphne Athas

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North Carolina Literary Festival

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In 1998, the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsored a weekend literary festival for readers and writers. Open to the public, this inaugural statewide event had as its focus A Celebration of Southern Writers & Readers. Over 100 writers appeared on the festival program, giving talks, leading forums and panel discussions, and reading from their works. From the description of North Carolina Literary Festival records, 19...

Rachel Davies

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John Grisham

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