Fred Chappell (1936–2024)
Author of I Am One of You Forever
About the Author
Born in Canton, North Carolina, Fred Chappell earned a Master's degree at Duke University. He has written numerous novels and books of poetry, including First and Last Words, Midquest, More Shapes than One, and I Am One of You Forever. Among the awards Chappell has received in his illustrious show more career are the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize in 1973, the North Carolina Award for Literature in 1980, Yale University Library's Bollingen Prize in poetry in 1985, and the Aiken Taylor Award in poetry in 1996. Chappell is Burlington Industries Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also writes about poetry every month as a News & Observer book columnist. He was selected by the governor of North Carolina to be the state's poet laureate in 1997, a position he held until 2002. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Fred Chappell
Dance of Shadows 3 copies
The Somewhere Doors [short fiction] 3 copies
Shadow Of The Valley 2 copies
Maze of Shadows 2 copies
Thief of Shadows [short fiction] 2 copies
Linnaeus Forgets 1 copy
The Adder 1 copy
The Diamond Shadow 1 copy
Remnants 1 copy
Miss Prue 1 copy
Urania Horror 7 - DAGON 1 copy
"Hooyoo Love" 1 copy
Weird Tales 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 263 copies
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contributor — 141 copies
A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South’s Best Writers (2003) — Contributor — 33 copies
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2012, Vol. 122, Nos. 5 & 6 (2012) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Writer's Mind: Interviews With American Authors (Writer's Mind) (1989) — Contributor — 10 copies
Craft so hard to learn;: Conversations with poets and novelists about the teaching of writing (1972) — Contributor, some editions — 4 copies
The Davidson Miscellany: Fall 1983-Spring 1984 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Chappell, Fred Davis
- Birthdate
- 1936-05-28
- Date of death
- 2024-01-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Canton, North Carolina, USA
- Place of death
- Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Places of residence
- Canton, North Carolina, USA
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA - Education
- Duke University (BA|1961)
Duke University (MA|1964) - Occupations
- professor
poet
novelist
short-story writer
editor - Organizations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
University of North Carolina, Greensboro - Awards and honors
- Bollingen Prize (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1968)
Poet Laureate of North Carolina (1997-2002)
Aiken Taylor Award (1996)
T. S. Eliot Award (1993)
O. Max Gardner Award (1987) (show all 16)
Thomas Wolfe Prize (2005)
Ragan-Rubin Award (1989)
Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers
North Carolina Award in Literature
Woodrow Wilson fellow
National Defense Act fellow
Rockefeller Foundation grant (1966)
National Institute and American Academy awards in literature, 1968
Irene Lenore Heasley Prize (1999)
John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities (2010)
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Statistics
- Works
- 51
- Also by
- 45
- Members
- 1,503
- Popularity
- #17,097
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 35
- ISBNs
- 100
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 2
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