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Eudora Welty

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October 3, 1988 Eudora Welty speaks at UNC's Oktoberfest honoring Louis Rubin and Thomas Wolfe Novelist Eudora Welty gave the keynote of the 1988 Oktoberfest to about 1,500 people in Memorial Hall, an event held by the English department and the Department of Social and Administrative Medicine to mark the retirement of Professor Louis Rubin and the 50th anniversary of Thomas Wolfe's death. She praised Rubin's writing and his founding of the Algonquin press in Carrboro. People: Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer Place: Memorial Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Louis Rubin, Thomas WolfeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1988, p. 4

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Elizabeth Spencer 1 entry: Eudora Welty speaks at UNC's Oktoberfest honoring Louis Rubin and Thomas Wolfe (October 3, 1988)

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Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2018 (bulk 1999-2003)

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 · 1911

The novelist Elizabeth Spencer, 1921 to 2019, left papers spanning 1911 to 2018 with the bulk from 1999 to 2003. Subjects include many American writers, among them Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, and they cover her Mississippi upbringing at Carrollton and her years on the faculty at Chapel Hill. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5145.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.

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