Jill McCorkle

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1967–1986 Max Steele directs the UNC Creative Writing Program After Jessie Rehder died in 1967, Max Steele became director of UNC's Creative Writing Program and led it until 1986. Writers he mentored include Randall Kenan, Jill McCorkle and Lawrence Naumoff. People: Randall Kenan, Jill McCorkleSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: Obituaries (Max Steele, 2005)
2. 1982 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: Shannon Ravenel, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkleSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Records, 1982-2017
3. 1984 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill publishes Jill McCorkle's first two novels on the same day Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill brought out Jill McCorkle's first two novels, The Cheerleader and July 7th, simultaneously in 1984, four years after she graduated from the university in creative writing.Search the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Jill McCorkle Papers, 1970s-2003
4. July 20, 1986 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: Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkleSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 24, 1986, p. 1
5. September 25, 1986 Jill McCorkle reads To Kill a Mockingbird at a Banned Books Week protest in the Pit For National Banned Books Week, UNC students and faculty read from challenged books in the Pit, in a program sponsored by the Bull's Head Bookstore with national bookseller and library associations. Jill McCorkle, then a creative writing lecturer, read from To Kill a Mockingbird with a student, Greg Meyjes; Elizabeth Spencer and Thadious M. Davis also read. People: Elizabeth SpencerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1986, p. 1 (Readers take banned books off the shelf and into the Pit)
6. December 4, 1989 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: Clyde EdgertonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1989, p. 3 (Southern writer to speak)
7. May 1992 Jill McCorkle leaves her UNC creative writing lecturership to teach at Harvard The Daily Tar Heel reported that Jill McCorkle, a lecturer in the English department's creative writing program who taught honors writing courses for first-year students and seniors, would leave the university that fall to teach at Harvard.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 18, 1992, p. 3 (UNC lecturer/author to teach at Harvard)
8. 1998 Thomas S. Rankin buys the Ira Ellis House Thomas S. Rankin bought the Ellis house and its mostly wooded 60-acre tract on the Eno, where he lives with his wife Jill McCorkle. The owners later paid for a history of the house (2012) that the state's 2016 survey drew on. People: Jill McCorkleSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159