Michael McFee papers, 1970s-2002 [manuscript].

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Michael McFee papers, 1970s-2002 [manuscript].

Material related to Michael McFee's writing, including drafts of poems and essays written between 1970 and 2002. Subjects of McFee's essays include writers A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, and Fred Chappell. Material pertaining to McFee's published collections of poetry consists primarily of drafts, correspondence about publication matters, reviews and comments, and promotional material. Papers related to DoubleTake concern the selection of poems for publication in the magazine. Material from the Second Sunday Reading Series includes promotional pieces, drafts of reader introductions, and plans for the tenth anniversary celebration of the Series. Personal letters related to McFee's work as a poet and editor are scattered throughout the collection.

8000 items (16.5 linear ft.).

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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...

Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001

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Poet and university professor Archie Randolph Ammons was born near Whiteville, N.C., in 1926. He earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading poets in the decades after he joined the Cornell University faculty in 1963, becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry a decade later. Recipient of the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award and Critics Circle Award for poetry, Ammons was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1981. From the description ...

Chappell, Fred, 1936-....

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Author and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. From the description of Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2010 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19465036 From the description of Fred Chappell Papers, 1944-2003 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122569745 Fred Chappell is a poet and an author who has won numerous awards for his writings, including the Rockefeller Foundation Grant;...

McFee, Michael

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Michael McFee was born in Asheville, N.C., on 4 June 1954. He received an A.B. (1976) and M.A. (1978) in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught at the University since 1984. McFee has published collections of poetry, served as assistant editor for poetry at DoubleTake magazine, and was coordinator of the Second Sunday Reading Series in Chapel Hill. From the description of Michael McFee papers, 1970s-2002 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 50797944 ...