Daphne Athas

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Daphne Athas


Born
in The United States
January 01, 1923


Daphne Athas moved to Chapel Hill as a teenager and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1943. As a writing student, she worked with Betty Smith and Phillips Russell. In 1964, she joined the English department of the University of North Carolina to teach creative writing. Her best-known work is Entering Ephesus (1971), a coming-of-age novel set in an academic village (like Chapel Hill) where her characters are a mix of intellectuals, poor southerners, and Greek immigrants.

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Entering Ephesus

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Chapel Hill in Plain Sight:...

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GRAM-O-RAMA: Breaking the R...

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Greece by prejudice

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Ceux qui vivent dans la nuit

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The weather of the heart

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“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”
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