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Daphne Athas taught creative writing at UNC from 1968 until 2009 and is best known for her 1971 novel Entering Ephesus, set in Carrboro and Chapel Hill during World War II, which Time named one of the year's top ten novels.
Source: UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature: Remembering Daphne Athas
1923–2020 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
6 works about Daphne Athas are indexed here, as are 3 works by Athas. 1 held at OCPL →
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Twelve essays by novelist Daphne Athas (1923-2020) on the Chapel Hill she knew across the twentieth century. Subjects include Carrboro as 'the Paris of the Piedmont', philosopher Horace Williams, Betty Smith writing in Chapel Hill, Junius Scales, Ab Abernethy and the Intimate Bookshop, Richard Wright's visit, and a set of Chapel Hill murders. Published 2010, 243 pages with illustrations.
Daphne Athas's novel set in a fictionalized Chapel Hill. The London edition from Chatto and Windus reprints the New York edition published by Viking Press the same year, 1971. 442 pages.
Papers of the writer Daphne Athas (1923-2020) spanning the 1970s to the 2000s, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 70101. The papers concern Athas's writing and her faculty work in the Department of English and Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Festival records of the North Carolina Literary Festival from 1995 to 2009, approximately 5,850 items in 7.5 linear feet, University Archives collection 40272 at UNC. Subjects include writers including Doris Betts, Clyde Edgerton, Randall Kenan, Allan Gurganus and Fred Chappell, the Carolina African American Writers' Collective, and the Center for the Study of the American South, with the festival set in Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Athas, Daphne, 1923-2020.
The writer Max Steele (1922-2005) left papers with material dating from 1693 to 2004, about 13,500 items in 28.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4314. The papers concern the English department, creative writing program and writer in residence program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with material on Doris Betts, Daphne Athas, Jill McCorkle and Randall Kenan.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Athas, Daphne, 1923-2020.
Novelist Daphne Athas posed by a bookshelf, an undated photograph in the Artists binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Daphne Athas, the novelist and longtime writing teacher at the University of North Carolina, posed with pen and paper in an undated portrait from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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