Fred Chappell

Fred Davis Chappell (b. May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet. He 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 1986 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.

Bibliography (partial)

• Awakening to Music, Briarpatch Press, 1979.
• Backsass, LSU Press, 2004.
• Bloodfire: A Poem, LSU Press, 1978.
• Brighten the Corner Where You Are, St. Martin's, 1989.
• Castle Tzingal, LSU Press, 1984.
• Dagon, Harcourt, 1968, reprinted, St. Martin's, 1986.
• Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle, Iron Mountain Press, 1981.
• Earthsleep: A Poem, LSU Press, 1980.
• Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You.
• Family Gathering, LSU Press, 2000.
• First and Last Words, LSU Press, 1989.
• The Fred Chappell Reader, St. Martin's, 1987.
• The Gaudy Place, Harcourt, 1973.
• I Am One of You Forever, LSU Press, 1985.
• The Inkling, Harcourt, 1965.
• It Is Time, Lord, Atheneum, 1963.
• Look Back All the Green Valley, 1996.
• The Man Twice Married by Fire, Unicorn Press, 1975.
• Midquest: A Poem (contains "River: A Poem", "Bloodfire: A Poem", "Windmountain: A Poem", and "Earthsleep: A Poem"), LSU Press, 1981.
• Moments of Light, New South Co., 1980.
• More Shapes Than One, 1991.
• Plow Naked: Selected Writings on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1993.
• River: A Poem, LSU Press, 1975.
• Source, LSU Press, 1986.
• Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1995.
• Wind Mountain: A Poem, LSU Press, 1979.
• A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, Picador, 1998.
• The World Between the Eyes, LSU Press, 1971.

External links

• Review of Fred Chappell's writings

• Online resources on Fred Chappell

• Interview with Fred Chappell

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See also

• List of horror fiction authors