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Max Steele (1922–2005), a writer from Greenville, South Carolina, earned his B.A. at UNC in 1946, lectured there in 1956 and returned in 1966 as writer-in-residence. After Jessie Rehder's death in 1967 he directed the university's Creative Writing Program, and he retired in 1987.
Source: UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Max Steele Papers, 1693-2004
1922–2005 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 works about Max Steele are indexed here, as are 4 works by Steele.
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Max Steele's collection of short stories, published by Algonquin Books in 1988 in a first edition of 185 pages. The work describes fiction about North Carolina writers and about social life in the Southern States. Steele directed the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for many years, which is the collection's link to the county.
Max Steele of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill writing on student writers and the work they were producing. The column appeared in The New York Times Book Review for June 9, 1968, and this copy was detached from that issue. Topics include American college students' writings from Chapel Hill and the university's creative writing program.
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.
Max Steele (1922-2005) read his paper 'Color the daydream yellow' to the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies at Chapel Hill, and this compilation gathers his introductory remarks with an extract of the piece from the Quarterly review of literature, volume 15, numbers 3 and 4, of 1968. Nineteen unnumbered leaves dated 1977, with a cover letter from Steele dated 1978. In UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Max Steele, the writer who directed the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina, photographed in 1966 looking at a ceramic bowl and clothing. One print from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
Included because: Its title names this person.
Editorial records of Lillabulero, a literary magazine published from Chapel Hill between 1964 and 1975, collection 5042 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Subjects include many of the poets and novelists associated with the magazine, among them Russell Banks, Wendell Berry, Robert Morgan, David Ignatow and William Matthews.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Steele, Max, 1922-2005.
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