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Sherwood Anderson

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  1. Sherwood Anderson lectures in Memorial Hall The novelist and Marion, Virginia, newspaper owner Sherwood Anderson lectured on the creative impulse in Memorial Hall before students and townspeople, the second event of the season arranged by the University's new student-faculty entertainment committee, paid for by a student fee voted the previous spring. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 23, 1928, p. 4
  2. The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill Led by its president, University librarian Nora Beust, the association met with a tea in the University Library, a dinner at the Carolina Inn with William T. Polk as toastmaster, and sectional meetings, and closed with an authors' luncheon attended by James Boyd, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Sherwood Anderson and Paul Green, among others. People: Sherwood Anderson, Paul Green Place: Carolina Inn and University Library, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nora Beust, William T. Polk, James Boyd, Wilbur Daniel Steele · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 15, 1937, p. 1

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Contempo records, 1930-1934

Contempo · 1930

Records of 'Contempo, a review of books and personalities', the Chapel Hill literary magazine, covering 1930 to 1934, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4408. Milton Abernethy and Tony Buttitta are among the people covered, along with writers the magazine dealt with: William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings and H. L. Mencken.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.

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