Fred Chappell | |
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 Chappell (left) with Les Daniels in 1990 | |
| Born | May 28, 1936 Canton, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | January 4, 2024 (aged 87) Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. |
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Fred Davis Chappell (May 28, 1936 – January 4, 2024) was an author and poet.[1] He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[2] He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002.[3] He attended Duke University.
His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.
His literary awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Award.
Fred Chappell died in Greensboro, North Carolina on January 4, 2024, at the age of 87.[4][5]
- ^ Fred Chappell Biography Archived October 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "UNC News release – Poet Fred Chappell to present Thomas Wolfe Lecture Oct. 6". Archived from the original on August 24, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2007.
- ^ "North Carolina Poet Laureate | Biography: Fred Chappell". Archived from the original on September 8, 2005.
- ^ Risen, Clay (January 25, 2024). "Fred Chappell, Writer Who Celebrated the Carolina Mountains, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ Fred Chappell, acclaimed author and past NC Poet Laureate, dies at 87