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Carolina’s Literary History

Influence of drama professor Frederick Koch, novelist Thomas Wolfe, and English professor Louis Rubin on campus writers and the emergence of George Moses Horton, Walker Percy, Doris Betts, and Charles Frazier.

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  1. Inaugural issue of the University Magazine (1844)
  2. Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
  3. Title Page of The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, 1845 by George Moses Horton (ca. 1797- ca.1883)
  4. Sea-Gift (1873) title page by Edwin W. Fuller (1847-1875)
  5. Playmakers tour bus, 1926
  6. Frederick Henry Koch (1877-1944) and Paul Green (1894-1981)
  7. Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) as Buck Gavin, 1919
  8. Paul Green (1894-1981)
  9. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and Intimate Bookshop owner Anthony Buttitta (1907-2004), Chapel Hill, 1932
  10. Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
  11. Walker Percy (1916-1990)
  12. Robert Ruark (1915-1965)
  13. Betty Smith (1896-1972)
  14. Josefina Niggli (1910-1983)
  15. Frances Gray Patton (1906-2000)
  16. John Ehle (1925- )
  17. Charles Phillips Russell (1884-1974) (right) with Carl Sandburg
  18. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- )
  19. Jessie Rehder (1908-1967) and Max Steele (1922-2005)
  20. Carolina Quarterly cover, Spring 1968
  21. Daphne Athas (1923- )
  22. Doris Betts (1932- )
  23. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923- )
  24. Elizabeth Spencer (1921- )
  25. Charles Frazier (1950- )
  26. Bland Simpson (1948 -)
  27. Randall Kenan (1963- )

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