North Carolina Literary Festival records, 1995-1998.

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North Carolina Literary Festival records, 1995-1998.

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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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

Carolina African American Writers' Collective

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Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013

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Papers of Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., of Chapel Hill, N.C., educator, literary critic, scholar, novelist, journalist, editor, and publisher. Rubin was professor of English at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. From the description of Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945- (Series 1.1.1 D-H) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31069813 From the description of Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945- WorldCat reco...

Gurganus, Allan, 1947-....

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Athas, Daphne, 1923-....

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Grisham, John

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Davies, Rachel.

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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...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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