Dannye Romine Powell papers, 1975-1999.

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...

Jones, Simmons, 1928-

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Heckler, Jonellen

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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...

Ballard, Mignon Franklin

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Mignon Franklin Ballard, American author, resides in South Carolina. From the description of Mignon Franklin Ballard papers, 1978-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38475730 ...

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;...

Bridgers, Sue Ellen

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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...

Shivers, Louise.

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Smith, Lee, 1944-....

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A popular author of novels and short stories, Lee Smith earned a B.A. in English from Hollins College in 1967. Immediately after college she worked as a reporter for the Richmond News Leader and the Tuscaloosa News. Smith was an English teacher at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, 1971-1975, and at the Carolina Friends School in North Carolina, 1975-1977. She taught creative writing at Duke University in 1977 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978-1981. From 1979 to 1980 sh...

Godwin, Gail

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Author Gail Godwin was born in Birmingham, Ala.; grew up in Asheville, N.C.; was graduated in 1959 from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in journalism; and studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop, earning an M.A. in creative writing and Ph. D. in English literature. She has published ten novels and taught in various colleges and universities. Godwin lives in Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Gail Godwin papers, 1913-2006. WorldCat record id: 49338168 ...

Hearon, Shelby, 1931-

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American writer. From the description of Papers, 1966-1996. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122617137 Novelist Shelby Hearon received an Ingram Merrill grant in 1987, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1983, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Fiction in 1982. Hearon won the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction award in 1973 for The Second Dance and in 1978 for A...

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...

Kratt, Mary Norton

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Powell, Dannye Romine

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Dannye Romine Powell is a journalist and poet from Charlotte, N.C. Born in Miami, Fla., she graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in English. From 1975 to 1992, she was book editor for the Charlotte Observer and continued with the paper after 1992 as a columnist. Powell is the author of Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers (1994) and two books of poetry, At Every Wedding Somebody Stays Home (1993) and The Ecstasy of Regret (2002). Her poetry has appeared in The Pa...

Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-....

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Doar, Harriet

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Harriet Fraser Doar was born in Charlotte. In 1930, she worked as a summer intern for The Charlotte News prior to beginning her studies that fall at Duke University. Returning to the newspaper the following summer, Doar worked there off and on over a twenty year period. In 1949, Doar became a writer for The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where she stayed until 1951. Doar returned to newspaper writing in 1959, this time with The Charlotte Observer. She retired in 1982 and was inducted into t...

Humphreys, Josephine N.

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Author residing on Sullivan's Island (Charleston Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1946, 1960-1993 (bulk 1983-1987). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46345001 From the description of Papers, 1960-2000 (bulk 1983-1987). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 79756747 Novelist, of South Carolina. From the description of Rich in love autographed promotional poster [picture] ; [1987]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat re...

Naumoff, Lawrence

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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...