Papers of the Virginia Quarterly Review [manuscript], 2000-2003.

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Papers of the Virginia Quarterly Review [manuscript], 2000-2003.

Editorial correspondence files and miscellaneous office files of Staige D. Blackford and Ted Genoways as editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review. The papers contain authors' original manuscripts, book reviews, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, and correspondence with authors and publishers. Of interest are letters from George Core, editor of the Sewanee Review, on the difficulties for a new director in managing staff and doing editorial work. There is also correspondence with Greg Orr on poetry. The 75th anniversary of the magazine and the celebratory anthology "We write for our own time" are also topics.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Core, George, 1939-

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George Core, born in 1939, is an American historian, literary critic, and editor, best known as the editor of The Sewanee Review, 1973 to 2016. He succeeded Andrew Lytle who had succeeded Allen Tate as editor of The Sewanee Review. Previously he taught history at Sewanee University and served as an editor of the University of Georgia Press. Core has written or edited a number of books, primarily relating to the literature of the American South, including Southern Fiction Today, The Southern Trad...

Orr, Gregory,

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Burnham, Alexander, 1926-

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Blackford, Staige D. (Staige Davis), 1931-2003

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Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. From the description of Staige D. Blackford papers [manuscript], 1938-2001. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648002922 Blackford, an University of Virginia graduate and Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar, came to the University as the assistant to President Edgar F. Shannon in 1973; he served as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 1975 to his death in 2003. The VQR is literary journal published continuously by the Un...

Genoways, Ted

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