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Fred Chappell

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May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina, The United States

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Fred Davis Chappell retired after 40 years as an English professor at 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 Academie Française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.

His literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Books by Fred Chappell

Average rating: 3.97 · 2,105 ratings · 208 reviews · 42 distinct works

	I Am One of You Forever 4.11 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Brighten the Corner Where You Are: A Novel 3.99 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You: Stories 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Look Back All the Green Valley: A Novel 3.59 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dagon 3.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Backsass: Poems 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Midquest: A Poem 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Family Gathering 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Our thoughts were so awesome to us, that no one could speak a word, not even ‘Goodbye.’ We hugged and clasped and wept silently.”
― Fred Chappell, I Am One of You Forever

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“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Fred Chappell, I Am One of You Forever

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“There were too many things suddenly that I didn’t understand, and I didn’t know what to do about it. I knew that I needed to be older, but that’s not enough. You have to have some basic information that was not yet available to me.”
― Fred Chappell, I Am One of You Forever

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