Record #:

15171

Author(s):

Dang, Louisa

Abstract:

Author Daphne Athas came to Carrboro with her family after the Great Depression. Now 87, her writing career includes four published novels, a poetry collection, a play, and a number of nonfiction books and essays. She is a two-time winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. Besides her own writing, Athas taught creative writing at UNC-CH for forty-one years, from 1968 to 2009.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 5, Oct 2011, p20-221, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Athas, Daphne, 1923-; Authors--Carrboro; Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction