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{{UnderDevelopment}} | {{UnderDevelopment}} Douglas George Fetherling was UNB’s twentieth writer-in-residence for the 2000-2001 academic year. He was born in West Virginia, US, on January 1, 1949, but left the US as a young teenager due to being what he described as "disillusioned all the more by the war going on at the time and especially by the abiding racism." He took up writing due to a speech impediment which left him severly debilitated. He held a previous writer-in-residence position at Queen’s University in 1993, and was a contributing editor for a number of magazines, including ''Quill and Quire ''and ''Toronto Life. ''Fetherling held a reading in the Alumni Memorial Lounge on September 26. Sources: UA Case 191; Section 2; George [Douglas] Fetherling [[Category:Writers-in-Residence]] | ||
Douglas George Fetherling was UNB’s twentieth writer-in-residence for the 2000-2001 academic year. He was born in West Virginia, US, on January 1, 1949. He held a previous writer-in-residence position at Queen’s University in 1993, and was a contributing editor for a number of magazines, including ''Quill and Quire ''and ''Toronto Life. ''Fetherling held a reading in the Alumni Memorial Lounge on September 26. | |||
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UA Case 191; Section 2; George [Douglas] Fetherling | |||
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Revision as of 14:05, 6 June 2017
Douglas George Fetherling was UNB’s twentieth writer-in-residence for the 2000-2001 academic year. He was born in West Virginia, US, on January 1, 1949, but left the US as a young teenager due to being what he described as "disillusioned all the more by the war going on at the time and especially by the abiding racism." He took up writing due to a speech impediment which left him severly debilitated. He held a previous writer-in-residence position at Queen’s University in 1993, and was a contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Quill and Quire and Toronto Life. Fetherling held a reading in the Alumni Memorial Lounge on September 26. Sources: UA Case 191; Section 2; George [Douglas] Fetherling