Fred Chappell
Full Name: |
Fred
Davis
Chappell |
Born: |
May 28, 1936 Canton, North Carolina, USA |
Died: |
January 5, 2024 Greensboro, North Carolina, USA |
Occupation: |
Author, Poet, Professor of English |
Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Fred Davis Chappell retired after 40 years as an English professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. He attended Duke University.
His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Academie Française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.
His literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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