Sam Ragan papers, 1950-1996.

Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998

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Terry Sanford, born James Terry Sanford, August 20, 1917, in Laurinburg, N. C. He was the second son of Cecil L. and Elizabeth Martin Sanford. He received the A.B. degree in 1939 and the J.D. degree in 1946 from the University of North Carolina. He served as an FBI agent, 1941-1942, with the United States Army in Europe during World War II, and as assistant director of the Institute of Government, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1946-1948. Sanford practiced as an attorney in Fayetteville, N.C., from 1948 ...

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 ...

Adcock, Betty

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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...

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965

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Randall Jarrell (6 May 1914 – 14 October 1965), the noted American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University where he studied under Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom, edited the student humor magazine, captained the tennis team, received a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After graduating from Vanderbilt, Jarrell served as a teaching instructor at Kenyon College, Gambier, ...

Hunt, James Baxter, Jr., 1937-

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James Baxter Hunt, Jr. (1937- ) was Democratic governor of North Carolina, 1977-1985 and 1993-2001. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural education and a Master’s degree in agricultural economics from North Carolina State University, where he served two terms as student body president, as well as a Juris Doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After serving as Lieutenant Governor from 1973 to 1977, he served two terms as Governor, 1977-1981 a...

Salinger, Pierre.

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North Carolina Writers Conference

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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...

Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981

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Journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan Daniels : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481338 From the description of Reminiscences of Jonathan Worth Daniels : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451557 Author, journalist, and government official Jonathan Daniels was a college classmate of Thomas Wolfe at the University of North Carolina. ...

Poe, Charles Aycock

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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...

North Carolina Writers' Network

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Long, Virginia Love

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Virginia Love Long (Virginia L. Rudder) was born in 1941 in Roxboro, N.C. She attended Catawba College, 1958-1961, and there met fellow student and poet Amon Liner. After college, she married Don Ray Bagby and pursued a journalism career, working primarily for the Roxboro, N.C., Courier-Times . She received numerous state and national awards for her work in poetry and journalism. She published her first book, After the Ifaluk and Other Poems in 1976, and another, The Gallows Lord, in 1978. As of...

North Carolina Arts Council

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The North Carolina Arts Council was created in 1964 by executive order of Governor Terry Stanford to strengthen North Carolina's creativity, invention, and prosperity. In 1967, the North Carolina Arts Council became a statutory state agency. It operates under the aegis of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. The Council makes information, technical assistance, and over 1,000 grants a year available to non-profit organizations and artists in North Carolina. It also oversees the di...

Whisnant, Charleen

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Moose, Ruth

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Ruth Moose (1938- ), North Carolina writer; reference librarian at Pfeiffer College, 1988-1996; and, since 1996, teacher of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ruth Moose worked as a free-lance writer, including a stint at the "Charlotte Observer," for which she was a regular columnist, and as poetry editor for the "Uwharrie Review" and "The Arts Journal." In addition to numerous articles, poems, and stories that have appeared in magazine...

Holt, Rochelle

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Macleod, Norman, 1906-1985

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American editor, educator, and poet Norman Wicklund Macleod was born October 1, 1906, in Salem, Oregon. From the description of Norman Macleod manuscripts, 1940-1951. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 624618763 Norman Wickland Macleod, professor, novelist, poet, editor, was born October 1, 1906 in Salem, Oregon. He received his B.A. at the University of New Mexico in 1930. He was influential to students in the fields of creative writing and poetry. ...

Styron, Nell Joslin

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Dalmas, Victor

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Victor Dalmas was born in Kentucky and moved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1954. He served in the Army in Korea and Vietnam, retiring in 1968. He received a degree in political science from the University of Maryland and studied English at Pembroke State University and North Carolina State University, 1974-1979. Dalmas served as associate editor of the literary quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, published at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He was also a freelance writer and publisher. Dalma...

Moore, Daniel Killian, 1906-1986

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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...

Rivers-Coffey, Rachel

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Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities

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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...

Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973

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Bernice Harris (1891-1973) was an author and playwright, largely on southern topics, and leader in civic, cultural, and religious organizations, of Seaboard, N.C. She participated in the W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project, collecting "life histories" of ordinary people in the South. From the description of Bernice Kelly Harris papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997. WorldCat record id: 25507472 Bernice Kelly Harris (8 Oct. 1891-13 Sept. 1973) was born in Wake County, N.C., d...

Haydn, Hiram Collins, 1907-1973

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Author, editor, and publisher. From the description of Papers, 1942-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605120 Between 1970 and 1972 Dr. Hiram Haydn of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a class on the creative writing process, i.e. the needs of the individual writer, the specific writing environment, and the problems encountered during the writing process. In order to obtain information Dr. Haydn sent questionnaires to various writers, some well-known, and others U...

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...

Ives, Elizabeth Stevenson, 1897-1994

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Interviewee sister of Adlai E. Stevenson; married Ernest Ives. From the description of Reminiscences of Elizabeth Stevenson Ives : oral history, 1966-1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527635 Sister, aide, admirer & confidante of Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965). Elizabeth and her husband, Ernest Ives, both actively worked for Adlai's campaigns when he ran for governor of Illinois in 1948 and U.S. President ...

Miller, Heather Ross, 1939-....

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Albemarle, N.C. writer and teacher. From the description of The wind southerly / Heather Ross Miller. [1966-1967] (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36424917 From the description of The edge of the woods / Heather Ross Miller. [1964?] (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36424858 Heather Ross Miller was born in Albemarle, N.C. in 1939. She received an undergraduat...

Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Paul Eliot Green(1894-1981) was a Southern playwright, poet, and novelist. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Green lived in the state all of his life and tried to capture in his writings the culture and heritage of the American South, concentrating on the experiences of tenant farmers, mill workers, Native Americans and African Americans. Green studied at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under folk dramatist Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers. After an interruption of his ...

Belk, Henry, 1898-1972.

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Boyd, James, 1888-1944

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James Boyd (1888-1944) was an American author and journalist. From the description of James Boyd papers, 1906-1952 ; 1964-1969. WorldCat record id: 26319687 American novelist. From the description of Letter : Southern Pines, N. C., to [John Stuart] Groves, 1933 Nov. 21. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122648372 American novelist Boyd graduated from Princeton in 1910 and served in World W...

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...

Friday, William C. (William Clyde)

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William Clyde Friday was born in 1920 in Raphine, Va., and grew up in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C. He graduated from the Law School of the University of North Carolina in 1948, after which he served as assistant dean of students and was named assistant to University President Gordon Gray in 1951. Friday was appointed secretary of the University in 1955, named acting president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (North Carolina State College (Raleigh), the University of North Carolina...