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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Dannye Romine Powell Papers #5153, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Dannye Romine Powell of Charlotte, N.C., in April 2004 (Acc. 99761) and December 2004 (Acc. 99953).

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• Adult children of alcoholics.
• Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Ballard, Mignon Franklin.
• Betts, Doris.
• Bridgers, Sue Ellen.
• Chappell, Fred, 1936- .
• Charlotte observer.
• Doar, Harriet.
• Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916- .
• Gibbons, Kaye, 1960- .
• Godwin, Gail.
• Hearon, Shelby, 1931- .
• Heckler, Jonellen.
• Humphreys, Josephine.
• Jones, Simmons, 1928- .
• Journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Kratt, Mary Norton.
• Moose, Ruth.
• Naumoff, Lawrence.
• Poets, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Powell, Dannye Romine.
• Price, Reynolds, 1933- .
• Ragan, Sam, 1915- .
• Shivers, Louise.
• Smith, Lee, 1944- .
• Women authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Women journalists--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women poets, American--North Carolina--20th century.

Dannye Romine Powell is a journalist and poet from Charlotte, N.C. Born in Miami, Fla., she graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in English. From 1975 to 1992, she was book editor for the Charlotte Observer and continued with the paper after 1992 as a columnist. Powell is the author of Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers (1994) and two books of poetry, At Every Wedding Somebody Stays Home (1993) and The Ecstasy of Regret (2002). Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. She is married to Charlotte Observer editor and columnist Lew Powell.

The collection includes correspondence, legal documents, clippings, and other materials relating to journalist and writer Dannye Romine Powell's tenure as book editor and columnist at the Charlotte Observer, as well as her work as an author and poet. Much of the correspondence is from North Carolina writers. Correspondents include novelists Doris Betts, Lee Smith, Gail Godwin, Kaye Gibbons, Reynolds Price, Simmons Jones, Josephine Humphreys, Fred Chappell, Lawrence Naumoff, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Louise Shivers, Jonellen Heckler, Mignon Ballard, and Shelby Hearon; poets Ruth Moose, Charles Edward Eaton, Sam Ragan, Mary Kratt, and Harriet Doar; and Charlotte Observer editors. Other letters are from readers commenting on Powell's Charlotte Observer articles or are from Charlotte Observer book reviewers. Also included are letters and other papers relating to Powell's 5 July 1987 Charlotte Observer article about adult children of alcoholics and to her 26 June 1999 Parade magazine article about Kay Smith, AKA Pamela Rodgers, who escaped from a Columbia, S.C., prison in 1978 and started a new life in Maryland before being recaptured in 1988.

Items separated include oversize papers (OP-5153).