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Sylvia Wilkinson

Sylvia Wilkinson (born 1940) was a lecturer in creative writing and visiting writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1970. She is the author of the novels Moss on the North Side (1966), A Killing Frost (1967) and Cale (1970).

Source: Encyclopedia.com: Wilkinson, Sylvia J. (Writers Directory 2005)

1940– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Sylvia Wilkinson teaches creative writing at UNC Novelist Sylvia Wilkinson was a lecturer in creative writing and visiting writer at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1970, the years in which she published A Killing Frost and Cale.Search the index · Encyclopedia.com: Wilkinson, Sylvia J. (Writers Directory 2005)
  2. Annie Dillard joins the Rubin writers panel at the North Carolina Literary Festival At the North Carolina Literary Festival at UNC, Dillard sat on a panel of writers who had studied under Louis Rubin, with Lee Smith, Katie Letcher Lyle, Margaret Gibson, Sylvia Wilkinson and Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, in Hamilton Hall. People: Lee Smith, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Sylvia WilkinsonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 31, 1998, p. 15 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 6, 1998, p. 3

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Louis D. Rubin Jr. papers, 1929-1996.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013 · 1929

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilkinson, Sylvia, 1940-.

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  • Hamilton Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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  • Wilkinson, Sylvia JeanNorth Carolina Literary Map (UNCG) Writers and their works by the places they wrote about

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