Personal Information
- Born in 1936 , in Canton, NC.
Included Titles By Chappell, Fred Davis
- Ancestors and Others (2009)
- Bloodfire (1978)
- Brighten the Corner Where You Are (1989)
- Center of the Universe (2007)
- Dagon (1968)
- Earthsleep (1980)
- Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You (1997)
- Finish Line, The (2000)
- Fred Chappell Reader, The (1987)
- Gaudy Place, The (1973)
- I Am One of You Forever (1985)
- Inkling, The (1965)
- It is Time, Lord (1963)
- Lodger, The (1993)
- Look Back All the Green Valley (1999)
- Man Married Twice to Fire, The (1977)
- Midquest (1981)
- Naked Came the Leaf Peeper (2011)
- Pete & Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel (1995)
- River (1975)
- Spring Garden (1995)
- Wind Mountain (1978)
Here are some other books by the author:
Fiction
• A Shadow All of Light, Tor, 2016
Non-Fiction
• Plow Naked, University of Michigan Press, 1993
• A Way of Happening, Picador, 1998
Poetry
• The World Between the Eyes, Louisiana State University Press, 1971 (Roanoke-Chowan Award recipient)
• The Man Twice Married to Fire, Unicorn Press, 1977
• Awakening to Music, Briarpatch Press, 1979
• Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle, Iron Mountain Press, 1981
• Castle Tzingal, Louisiana State University Press, 1984 (Roanoke-Chowan Award recipient)
• Source, Louisiana State University Press, 1986
• First and Last Words, Louisiana State University Press, 1989 (Roanoke-Chowan Award recipient)
• C, Louisiana State University Press, 1993
• Family Gathering, Louisiana State University Press, 2000 (Roanoke-Chowan Award recipient)
• Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers (editor), Louisiana State University Press, 2003
• Backsass, Louisiana State University Press, 2004
• Shadow Box, Louisiana State University Press, 2009
• Familiars, Louisiana State University Press, 2014
• As If It Were, Louisiana State University Press, 2019
• Ever After, Louisiana State University Press, 2024
Short Stories & Anthologies
• Moments of Light, New South, 1980
• More Shapes than One, St. Martin's Press, 1991
• A Very Southern Christmas (edited by Charline R. McCord), Algonquin Books, 2003
N.C. Locations Associated with Chappell, Fred Davis
- Resided in:
- Candler (City/Town)
- Canton (City/Town)
- Durham (City/Town)
- Greensboro (City/Town)
- Taught at:
- University of North Carolina -Greensboro
- Studied at:
- Duke University
- Manuscript Location:
- Duke University
Awards
- Brockman-Campbell Book Award for Earthsleep
- NC Poet Laureate
- North Carolina Award
- North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
- R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award
- Roanoke-Chowan Award
- Roanoke-Chowan Award for Spring Garden
- Roanoke-Chowan Award for River
- Roanoke-Chowan Award for Bloodfire
- Roanoke-Chowan Award for Wind Mountain
- Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Gaudy Place, The
