Title: Charles Wright Manuscripts

Date/Date Range :   1983

Extent: 0.7 linear feet

Abstract:

The Charles Wright Manuscripts contain seven proof copies for a 1984 Random House vintage print of Wright's book of poetry entitled The Other Side of the River.

Call number: MS-2429

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection was purchased by Special Collections in March 2001.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Charles Wright Manuscripts, MS-2429. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of seven folders.

Born in Pickwick Dam, TN in 1935, Charles Wright received his B.A. from Davidson College (NC) in 1957 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1963. His books of poetry include Black Zodiac (1997), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, Chickamauga (1996), which claimed the 1996 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Country Music: Selected Early Poems (1983), which won the National Book Award. In 1999, Wright was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is currently the Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

The Charles Wright Manuscripts contain seven proof copies for a 1984 Random House vintage print of Wright's book of poetry entitled The Other Side of the River. Many of the manuscripts contain handwritten notations from an editor.

• Wright, Charles, 1935-.
• Poets, American -- Tennessee.