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Steve Almond (1967- ) received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UNCG in 1997. Almond is the winner of the 2002 Pushcart Prize and the 2005 Alex Award (Young Adult Library Service Association). This collection includes manuscripts of Almond's published short stories, essays, and monographs, as well as several unpublished works.

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This collection contains a publisher's review typescript of "Circle View: Stories" by Brad Barkley. "Circle View: Stories" is Barkley's first collection of short stories, centering on the lives of working-class men and women.

Abstract Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times best-selling author and the award-winning author of numerous books for young people. Her work includes topics such as jazz and photography, slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow eras and covers the genres of poetry, biography, nonfiction and historical fiction.The Carole Boston Weatherford Papers date from circa 1981-2009 and contain research materials, notes, correspondence, sketches, manuscript drafts...

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Angela Davis-Gardner is a noted author and English professor from North Carolina. This collection documents the writing and teaching career of Angela Davis-Gardner beginning with her early work in 1963 and ending in 2012 with the publication of Butterfly's Child.

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Reference was created to have easily accessible documents pertaining to the history of UNCG from its inception until today. The documents in the "Reference" collection tend to pertain to events held by UNCG in the past, Alumnae/i, and the general happenings of the University over time. This collection contains books and other assorted files.

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Michael Gills (1960-) is an author, former University of North Carolina at Greensboro student, and writing professor at The University of Utah.

The collection, spanning the period from 1979 to 2013, includes material relating to Gills' many published writings as well as his college career.

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This collection contains an interview, textiles, and photographs.

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Heather Ross Miller (1939- ) received both her undergraduate degree and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UNCG. She went on to become an award-winning author and an instructor in reading and writing.

This collection includes manuscripts of three of Miller's books and two unpublished poems.

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Eleanor Ross Taylor is a 1940 alumna of Woman's College (now UNCG) and an award-winning poet. The Eleanor Ross Taylor Papers date from the 1970s and include correspondence and draft and manuscript copies of poems.

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Sylvia Wilkinson (1940- ) is an alumna of Woman's College (now UNCG) and an award-winning author.

This collection contains editor's notes, a book review, and manuscripts of Wilkinson's books, Moss on the North Side and A Killing Frost.

Abstract Isabel Ann Eggers was born to Herman Eggers and Elizabeth Pennington Eggers on July 28, 1932. Her father worked at Appalachian State University from 1929 to 1965. Her younger sister Elizabeth was born around 1936. She married Richard Zuber, a professor of history at Wake Forest University, on August 29, 1954. She and Richard had two children, Jonathan Herman Zuber (b.1963) and Elizabeth Pennington Zuber (b.1967). She divorced Zuber in 1986.Isabel worked as a librarian at...