Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923–2013)
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina on November 19, 1923. After serving in the Army during World War II, he received a history degree the University of Richmond. He worked for The Associated Press and several newspapers including the Richmond News-Leader before receiving vis mere master's and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins University. In 1953, while still at Johns Hopkins University, he co-edited his first book, Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Hollins College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a co-founder of Algonquin Books and founder of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 1989, he retired from the UNC faculty after 22 years to focus on Algonquin Books. He was a prolific author who wrote novels, critical studies, histories, memoirs and a guide for predicting the weather. His books include Small Craft Advisory, Babe Ruth's Ghost, A Memory of Trains, An Honorable Estate, and My Father's People. He died from kidney disease on November 16, 2013 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary (Southern Literary Studies) (1979) — Redaktør — 13 eksemplarer
The Baseball Fanatic: The Best Things Ever Said about the Greatest Game Ever Invented (2006) — Redaktør — 9 eksemplarer
An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference (1987) — Redaktør — 8 eksemplarer
The Even-Tempered Angler: Being a Treatise in Praise of the Fine Art of Bottom Fishing (1983) — Forfatter — 7 eksemplarer
Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, Volume I:… (1957) 3 eksemplarer
The Experience of America a Book of Readings — Redaktør — 2 eksemplarer
The writer in the South;: Studies in literary community (Mercer University. Lamar memorial lectures, no. 15) (1972) 1 eksemplar
Virginia a History 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization) (1930) — Introduktion — 322 eksemplarer
Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder (1988) — Introduktion — 87 eksemplarer
Teach the freeman; the correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, 1881-1887 — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 3 eksemplarer
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- Rubin, Louis Decimus, Jr.
- Fødselsdato
- 1923-11-19
- Dødsdag
- 2013-11-16
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- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Dødssted
- Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA
- Uddannelse
- Johns Hopkins University (PhD|1954)
Johns Hopkins University (MA|1949)
University of Richmond (BA|1946)
Yale University (1943-44)
College of Charleston (1940-42) - Erhverv
- editor
literary critic
publisher
professor
historian
novelist (vis alle 8)
journalist
essayist - Relationer
- Barth, John (student)
Dillard, Annie (student)
Smith, Lee (student)
Gibbons, Kaye (student)
McCorkle, Jill (student)
Ravenel, Shannon (student) (vis alle 7)
Woodward, C. Vann (teacher) - Organisationer
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
The Hopkins Review (editor)
American Studies Association (executive secretary)
Hollins University (professor)
Hollins Critic (founder and editor)
Southern Literary Journal (co-founder) (vis alle 13)
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (founder, president, and editorial director)
Johns Hopkins University (instructor)
University of North Carolina (professor)
Louisiana State University Press (editor)
University of North Carolina Press (advisory editor)
Mississippi Quarterly (editorial board)
U.S. Information Agency Forums (co-ordinator) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1997)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, National Book Critics Circle
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame (1997)
Sewanee Review fellowship (1953)
Guggenheim fellowship (1956)
American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (1964) (vis alle 18)
Distinguished Virginian Award (1972)
Litt.D., University of Richmond (1974)
Mayflower Society award (1978)
Jules F. Landry Award, Louisiana State University Press (1978)
D.Litt., Clemson University (1986)
D.Litt., University of the South (1992)
D.Litt., College of Charleston (1989)
D.Litt., University of North Carolina at Asheville (1993)
R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for lifetime contributions to the literary heritage of North Carolina
South Carolina Academy of Authors (1987)
North Carolina Award (1992)
O. Max Gardner Medal (1989)
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