American poet (1936–2024)
Fred Davis Chappell (May 28, 1936 – January 4, 2024) was an author and poet.[1] He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro .[2] He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002.[3] He attended Duke University .
His 1968 novel Dagon , which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française , is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic .
His literary awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry , the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger , the Bollingen Prize , and the T. S. Eliot Award.
Fred Chappell died in Greensboro, North Carolina on January 4, 2024, at the age of 87.[4] [5]
North Carolina Poets Laureate
World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction
1975–2000
"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aickman (1975)
"Belsen Express " by Fritz Leiber (1976)
"There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" by Russell Kirk (1977)
"The Chimney" by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
"Naples" by Avram Davidson (1979)
"Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
"The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
"The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)
"The Dark Country" by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
"Do the Dead Sing? " by Stephen King (1982, tie)
"The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee (1983)
"Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" by Tanith Lee (1984)
"The Bones Wizard" by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
"Still Life with Scorpion" by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
"Paper Dragons" by James Blaylock (1986)
"Red Light" by David J. Schow (1987)
"Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
"Winter Solstice, Camelot Station " by John M. Ford (1989)
"The Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser (1990)
"A Midsummer Night's Dream " by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
"The Somewhere Doors" by Fred Chappell (1992)
"Graves " by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
"This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
"The Lodger" by Fred Chappell (1994)
"The Man in the Black Suit " by Stephen King (1995)
"The Grass Princess" by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
"Thirteen Phantasms" by James Blaylock (1997)
"Dust Motes" by P. D. Cacek (1998)
"The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (1999)
"The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)
2001–present
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