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Jill McCorkle, a novelist, was a lecturer in the University of North Carolina's creative writing program, teaching honors writing courses for first-year students and seniors, until she left in 1992 to teach at Harvard. Her books by then included Tending to Virginia and Ferris Beach.
Source: DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 18, 1992, p. 3 (UNC lecturer/author to teach at Harvard)
1958– as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Jill McCorkle.
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Papers of the novelist Jill McCorkle, born 1958, spanning the 1970s to 2003, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include American fiction and essays, women authors in North Carolina, novelists of the twentieth century, intellectual life in the state, and publishing, with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill named.
The writer Max Steele (1922-2005) left papers with material dating from 1693 to 2004, about 13,500 items in 28.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4314. The papers concern the English department, creative writing program and writer in residence program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with material on Doris Betts, Daphne Athas, Jill McCorkle and Randall Kenan.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McCorkle, Jill, 1958-.
Jill McCorkle, the North Carolina novelist, posed by a tree in the snow. An undated photograph in the Artists binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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