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Russell Banks

1940–2023 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Lillabulero records, 1964-1975

1964

Editorial records of Lillabulero, a literary magazine published from Chapel Hill between 1964 and 1975, collection 5042 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Subjects include many of the poets and novelists associated with the magazine, among them Russell Banks, Wendell Berry, Robert Morgan, David Ignatow and William Matthews.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.

UNC

Daniel W. Patterson and Beverly Bush Patterson Papers, 1775-2018 (bulk 1964-2001)

1775

Folklore papers of Daniel W. Patterson and Beverly Bush Patterson, dated 1775 to 2018 with the bulk from 1964 to 2001, approximately 8,900 items in fifty six linear feet in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20026. Photographs, posters, songbooks and tune books are among the forms. Topics include folk song and sacred music, Shaker religious life, and singers and scholars including Bobby McMillon and Hugh McGraw.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.

UNC

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