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Fred Chappell

1936–2024 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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North Carolina Literary Festival records, 1995-2009

North Carolina Literary Festival · 1995

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: Chappell, Fred, 1936-2024.

UNC

Fred Chappell : 2005 Thomas Wolfe lecture.

2005 · Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Video of Fred Chappell's 2005 Thomas Wolfe lecture at Chapel Hill, a talk on Ray Bradbury's story 'Forever and the Earth' followed by questions from the audience. Sponsors were the Thomas Wolfe Society, the Morgan Writer-in-Residence Program and the Department of English. One videodisc, about 59 minutes, in color with sound.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chappell, Fred, 1936-2024.

UNC

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