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• 1 media/image42.jpg 2021-08-26T12:19:01-07:00 1966 - Doris Betts (1932-2012) Begins Teaching Creative Writing 3 Doris Betts begins a 35-year career teaching creative writing at UNC. The author of six novels and three collections of short stories, Betts was a beloved teacher and talented administrator, serving as director of the first-year composition program, assistant dean of the Honors Program, and as chair of the faculty from 1982-1985, the first White woman elected to the role. plain 2021-09-02T08:03:46-07:00 01/01/1966 Doris Betts begins a 35-year career teaching creative writing at UNC. The author of six novels and three collections of short stories, Betts was a beloved teacher and talented administrator, serving as director of the first-year composition program, as assistant dean of the Honors Program, and as chair of the faculty from 1982-1985, the first White woman elected to the role. She was named UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor of English in 1980 and received UNC’s Thomas Jefferson Award in 1999. 
  
  Among many other honors, including the Tanner and Carmichael teaching awards, Betts received the G.P. Putnam Book-Length Fiction Prize (1954); the Sir Walter Raleigh Best Fiction by a North Carolinian award (1957, 1965, and 1974); a Guggenheim fellowship (1958); the North Carolina Medal (1975); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit (1989); and the Southern Book Award (1995).
  
  
  
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  “Doris Betts Papers, 1932-2012” [finding aid]. Collection no. 04695, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04695/.
  
  Gingher, Marianne. “Doris Betts (1932-2012),” Chapter & Verse. Newsletter. The Creative Writing Program, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 2012, https://englishcomplit.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/570/2018/07/chapterverse_summer12_web.pdf.