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Alice Adams

1926–1999 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Alice Adams

Beautiful girl.

Adams, Alice, 1926-1999 · 1977 · New Yorker Magazine, Inc.

A short story by Alice Adams that appeared in The New Yorker for August 1, 1977, pages 23 to 26, preserved as tear sheets signed by the author at the end. Set in Chapel Hill and the North Carolina piedmont.

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Alice Adams : portrait of a writer

Sklenicka, Carol, 1948- · 2019 · Scribner

Carol Sklenicka's biography of the fiction writer Alice Adams, who lived from 1926 to 1999, published by Scribner in 2019. Adams was associated with Chapel Hill. Ten and 580 pages with eight unnumbered pages of plates carrying illustrations and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Adams, Alice, 1926-1999.

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