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Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell was born in Canton, North Carolina on May 28, 1936, to school teachers James and Anne. Chappell is an accomplished poet, professor, and author who has published more then two dozen books of poetry, literary criticism, and fiction. In 1961 he received his BA and in 1964 his MA from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Soon after his graduation from Duke in 1964, Chappell accepted a creative writing teaching position with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he established the MFA program and taught for 40 years, retiring in 2004. Chappell was married in 1959 to Susan Nichols and two had one son, Heath born in 1960. In 1997, Chappell was named North Carolina Poet Laureate and held the position till 2002. Chappell has received numerous awards and honors throughout his long literary career, with his most recent award coming in 2010 when he received the John Tyler Caldwell Award from the North Carolina Humanities Council for his contribution as a writer and an educator.

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