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Bernice Kelly Harris

1892–1973 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. The University of North Carolina Press publishes Bernice Kelly Harris's novel Purslane The University Press released Purslane, a novel of eastern North Carolina farm people by Bernice Kelly Harris of Seaboard, who had studied playwriting under Frederick Koch in the summer sessions. The Weekly called it the Press's first novel. Place: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frederick KochSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 12, 1939, p. 3

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By Bernice Kelly Harris

Folk Plays Of Eastern Carolina

Harris, Bernice Kelly · 1940 · The University of North Carolina press

Bernice Kelly Harris's collection of eastern North Carolina folk plays, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1940. Associated with the Carolina Playmakers of Chapel Hill, the volume has 294 pages, a frontispiece and plates.

About Bernice Kelly Harris

The University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication. Bernice Kelly Harris: Storyteller of Eastern Carolina [1955]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1955 · The University of North Carolina Press

A January 1955 number of the University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication given over to Bernice Kelly Harris (1892-1973), called in the title a storyteller of eastern Carolina. The University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill printed it.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973.

Records of the University of North Carolina Press, 1922-2015.

University of North Carolina Press · 1922

Publishing records of the University of North Carolina Press from 1922 to 2015, approximately 121,400 items in 158.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40073. Subjects include the editor William T. Couch and figures connected with the press, among them Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, Howard W. Odum, Rupert B. Vance and Josephus Daniels, along with the journal 'Social forces' and the Federal Writers' Project in North Carolina.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973.

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