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American poet, novelist
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Place of birth
Canton, USA
Star sign
GeminiAge
88 years
Residence
North Carolina, USA
Education
Duke University
Notable Works
Dagon
Awards
Bollingen Prize
(1985)
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
(1992)
World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
(1994)
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Biography
Fred Davis Chappell (born May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet.He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the 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 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 de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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