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Also found in catalogs as Louis D. Rubin.
1923–2013 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
5 works about Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (Louis Decimus) are indexed here, as is one work by Rubin.
Works about or by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (Louis Decimus). Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
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.
Jeanie Chung's 1995 piece on Louis D. Rubin, Jr., the critic and teacher who founded Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1982 and who lived from 1923 to 2013. A short profile concerning publishing and the press he founded.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013.
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: Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013.
Business records of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill spanning 1982 to 2017, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include twentieth century American literature of the South, relations between authors and publishers, novelists, poets and short story writers, and the commerce of publishing in North Carolina. Louis D. Rubin, Jr., a founder of the press, is named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013.
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