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Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro, a poet, joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1995 and became Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing. His collection Reel to Reel was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and he received the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2014.

Source: UNC College of Arts and Sciences: English professor's book of poems was a 2015 Pulitzer finalist

1952– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Poet Alan Shapiro joins the UNC English faculty Poet Alan Shapiro began teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1995. He became Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing and later retired as professor emeritus.Search the index · UNC College of Arts and Sciences: English professor's book of poems was a 2015 Pulitzer finalist

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North Carolina Literary Festival records, 1995-2009

North Carolina Literary Festival · 1995

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: Shapiro, Alan, 1952-.

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