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Clyde Edgerton

1944– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

3 works about Clyde Edgerton are indexed here, as is one work by Edgerton.

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  1. Louis Rubin and Shannon Ravenel start the press that became Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Rubin, then a UNC English professor, and editor Shannon Ravenel formed Bright Leaf Press, Inc., working from a garage at Rubin's home with money for a first printing of 1,500 copies. As Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill it went on to publish Clyde Edgerton, Dori Sanders and Jill McCorkle. People: Louis D. Rubin Jr., Shannon Ravenel, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Records, 1982-2017
  2. Six writers read at the Hardback Cafe to raise money against the Shearon Harris nuclear plant Joe Ashby Porter, Jill McCorkle, Clyde Edgerton, Lee Smith, Garrett Epps and Elizabeth Spencer read from their work at a $50-a-plate benefit dinner at the Hardback Cafe, raising over $2,000 for the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris. Organizers turned away 30 ticket requests because of the room's fire-code limit. People: Elizabeth Spencer, Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joe Ashby Porter, Garrett EppsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 24, 1986, p. 1
  3. Jill McCorkle speaks in the Carolina Union's Southern Writers Series at Gerrard Hall Jill McCorkle, author of The Cheerleader, July 7th and Tending to Virginia, gave a free evening talk in Gerrard Hall as the third speaker in the Carolina Union Forum Committee's Southern Writers Series. People: Jill McCorkle, Clyde Edgerton Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Gerrard HallSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1989, p. 3 (Southern writer to speak)

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By Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton papers, 1918-2022

Edgerton, Clyde, 1944- · 1918

Running from 1918 to 2022, the papers of the novelist Clyde Edgerton, born 1944, form part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Subjects include the writers Lee Smith and Michael McFee and the editor Louis D. Rubin, Jr., along with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Baptists in North Carolina, the United States Army in the First World War, and the Vietnam War.

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About Clyde Edgerton

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: Edgerton, Clyde, 1944-.

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Louis D. Rubin Jr. papers, 1929-1996.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013 · 1929

Papers of the critic and teacher Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923-2013), 1929 to 1996, about 44,600 items in 65 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3899. Topics include the faculty at Chapel Hill, the study of southern literature, authors and publishers, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, baseball in fiction, and writers such as Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton and Allen Tate.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Edgerton, Clyde, 1944-.

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  • Gerrard Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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