Doris Betts (1932–2012)
Autor von Souls Raised From the Dead
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Doris Betts was born Doris June Waugh in Statesville, North Carolina on June 4, 1932. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where as a sophomore she won the Mademoiselle College Fiction contest for the story Mr. Shawn and Father Scott. After working as a newspaper mehr anzeigen reporter for a number of years, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966. She taught creative writing there for 32 years. During her lifetime, she wrote 6 novels and 3 short story collections. Her novel, Souls Raised from the Dead, won the Southern Book Award in 1995. Her other works include The Gentle Insurrection, Tall Houses in Winter, The Scarlet Thread, The River to Pickle Beach, and The Sharp Teeth of Love. She won numerous awards including the N.C. Award for Literature, the John Dos Passos Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit for her short stories, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction from the N.C. Literary and Historical Association, which she won three times. Her short story, The Ugliest Pilgrim, was made into an Academy Award-winning film and a musical that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1998. She died of lung cancer on April 21, 2012 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Betts, Doris June Waugh
- Andere Namen
- Waugh, Doris June (birth name)
- Geburtstag
- 1932-06-04
- Todestag
- 2012-04-21
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Statesville, North Carolina, USA
- Sterbeort
- Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA
- Ausbildung
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1950-53)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1954) - Berufe
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
professor - Organisationen
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (professor)
Indiana University Summer Writers Conference - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- John Dos Passos Prize (1983)
Academy Award
North Carolina Medal (1975)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit (1989)
UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor of English
Tanner Award (1973) (Zeige alle 11)
Katherine Carmichael Teaching Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Parker Award (1982–1985)
Distinguished Service Award for Women (Chi Omega)
John Caldwell Award (1992)
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Like books about astronomy as I learn new things.
Rural NC and story of relationships. The new boarders take up his time but there are discussions of love, loss, etc.
Interesting how they used the black soot from the chimney in many ways before the war.
2 young girls in one story imagine spies in a house nearby....
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).