Indexed works
Works about or by Fred Hobson. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
By Fred Hobson
Off the rim : basketball and other religions in a Carolina childhood
Hobson, Fred · 2006 · University of Missouri Press
Fred Hobson's memoir of growing up in the North Carolina hills in Yadkin County with basketball as a second religion, and of a brief spell as a walk-on player for the Tar Heels. Chapters include 'Walk-On', 'Yadkin', 'Democrats and Methodists', 'My Magic Season', 'Romance of the Book' and 'Second Childhood', following a boyhood relived each season through Carolina basketball. Published 2006 by the University of Missouri Press, 260 pages.
Fred Hobson papers, circa 1970s-2017.
Hobson, Fred, 1943- · 1970
Fred Hobson's papers, running from the 1970s to 2017, about 800 items across fourteen linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5731. The work describes criticism and interpretation of American literature of the southern states and his place on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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