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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988

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Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; recipient of packages of letters from Burt. From the description of Correspondence from Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862428 Dr. Robert E. Spiller was a professor in the English Department at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1923-1928. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat ...

Starkie, Enid

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Enid Starkie, Oxford scholar, taught at Hollins College for one year (1958-59) in the English and French Departments. She is considered to be Hollins University's first writer-in-residence. She returned in 1967 to become the first recipient of the Hollins medal. Starkie left her personal library to Hollins in 1971 and in 1972, a building was named in her honor. From the description of Papers, 1950-1981. 1950-1981. (Hollins University). WorldCat record id: 154230817 ...

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...

Steele, Max, 1922-2005

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Henry Max Steele, writer, professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and advisory editor at the "Paris Review." From the description of Max Steele papers, 1950s-1990s. WorldCat record id: 46607323 Author, emeritus professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From the description of Mac Hyman letters, 1954-1963 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat recor...

O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964

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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia-d. August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), Southern American novelist and short story writer, the daughter of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She attended parochial schools in Savannah before moving to Milledgeville after the death of her father in 1941. After finishing high school in Milledgeville, she attended the Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College and State Univers...

Stern, Richard, 1928-2013

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Spencer, Anne, 1882-1975

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African American poet from Lynchburg, Va.; Librarian at Dunbar High Shool, 1920-1946; member of the Harlem Renaissance. From the description of Papers of Anne Spencer and the Spencer family [manuscript], 1829, 1864-2007. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648010759 Epithet: wife of Abraham Spencer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x0001fc Epithet: wife of Charles, Earl of S...

O'Connor, William van (1915-1966).

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American professor of English. Born in Syracuse, New York, in 1915, and educated at Syracuse and Columbia Universities, O'Connor taught at Ohio State, University of Minnesota and University of California at Davis. Much in demand as a visiting scholar, O'Connor produced many articles, reviews and books, including studies of Wallace Stevens and William Faulkner. He also wrote poetry, fiction and drama. He died, suddenly, in 1966. From the description of William...

Seay, James L.

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Sullivan, Walter, 1924-2006

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Walter Sullivan, a native of Nashville, Tenn., graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1947 and was a professor of English for 51 years at Vanderbilt. He authored numerous articles, books and short stories. From the description of Walter Sullivan Collection, 1928-1993. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 53980673 ...

Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-2000

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Poet, editor, and educator. From the description of Karl Jay Shapiro papers, 1947-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979818 Pulitzer-Prize-winning American poet and author of more than forty volumes of poetry and criticism. From the description of Papers. 1941-1967. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34091314 Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He served in the Second World War in the South Pacific and New Guinea. A volume of ...

Styron, Rose.

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Poulet, G. (Georges), 1859-

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Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954

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Howard Washington Odum was a sociologist of the American South; author; professor at the University of North Carolina from 1920 to 1954; and founder of the Sociology Department, the School of Public Welfare, the Department of City and Carolina. From the description of Howard Washington Odum papers, 1908-1982. WorldCat record id: 27192779 Howard Washington Odum, sociologist, author, and educator, was born 24 May 1884, in Bethlehem, Georgia, and died 8 November 1954, in Chapel...

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-....

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Writer Elizabeth Spencer was born in 1921 in Carrollton, Miss. Spencer married John Rusher in 1956 and was sometimes known as Elizabeth Rusher among friends and family. Spencer taught writing at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 1976-1986, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986-1992. From the description of Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2003 (bulk 1999-2003. WorldCat record id: 59109545 Writer Elizabeth Spencer was born in 1921, in C...

Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994

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Peter Hillsman Taylor was a prize-winning American author, known for his stylish novels and short stories of the American South. Born in Tennessee, Taylor's family travelled throughout the South during his youth, and he credits these experiences with inspiring his later writing. He enrolled at Rhodes College, where Allen Tate urged him to transfer to Vanderbilt to study under John Crowe Ransom; he later followed Ransom to Kenyon College, along with Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. He garnered ...

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955

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Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut. From the guide to the Wallace Stevens collection, 1921-1966, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Wallace Stevens was an American essayist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Wallace Stevens collection of papers, 19...

Styron, William, 1925-2006

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American novelist William Styron was born in Virginia and graduated from Duke. After serving in World War II, he worked as an editor while writing his first novel. His work has been both controversial and timely; his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, explored the theme of slavery, and benefitted from being released during the racially-charged 1960s, and his American Book Award-winning novel, Sophie's Choice, examined a World War II concentration camp survivor. His styl...

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...

Taylor, Henry, 1942-

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Taylor was born in 1942 in Loudoun County, Virginia. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1965 and an M.A. in creative writing from Hollins College in 1966. Poet, translator, and professor, Taylor has held teaching positions at Roanoke College (Salem, VA), the University of Utah, and American University in Washington, D.C. He also returned to Hollins as Writer-in-Residence in 1978. He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1986 for T...

Sanders, Dori, 1934-

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African American author of York County, S.C. From the description of A writer from Filbert: her own place. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 60330354 African American author and peach farmer of York County, S.C. From the description of Dori Sanders collection, ca. 1990-1993. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 47917085 ...

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990

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William Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambilavent about his decision to enter secular life. Walsh was at a personal crossroads when he read Lancelot, trying to determine his future. Having also been impressed by Percy's earlier writings, particularly The Message in the Bottle, he believed that Percy could be a source of guidance. As it turned out, Walsh and Percy never met in person and they spoke ...

Randall, Julia, 1923-2005

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Julia Randall was born June 15, 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a B.A. in English from Bennington College in 1945 and afterwards studied at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She eventually changed her studies to English and graduated with an M.A. in 1950. In 1952, she married Kenneth Sawyer, a poet and art critic who wrote for the Paris Tribune and the Baltimore Sun; they divorced in 1962. Randall taught at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland (Paris branch), Peabody Conservatory, and...

Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011

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By Source, Fair use, Link Reynolds Price was born Edward Reynolds Price, in Macon, North Carolina, on 1 February 1933. He earned his B.A. degree from Duke University (1955) while on a full scholarship. After graduating, Price won a Rhodes scholarship, which allowed him to attend Merton College, Oxford. In 1958, Price received his Bachelor of letters from Merton College. His thesis focused on the English poet John Milton. Upon his return from Oxford, Price secured a position in the English d...

Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012

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Poet and educator. From the description of Papers of Louis Aston Marantz Simpson, 1943-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060779 Poet, born in British West Indies; has taught at New School of Social Research and University of California, Berkeley. From the description of Photographs of Louis Simpson, [n.d.]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689957 ...