mc00023 Guide to the Guy Owen papers, 1967 - 1982 MC 00023 Finding aid prepared by Processed by: Dawne E. Howard;machine-readable finding aid created by: Dawne E. Howard Special Collections Research Center 2006 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-10-28T15:26-0400 Finding aid written in English. Guy Owen Papers MC 00023 Special Collections Research Center 0.5 Linear feet 1 box 1967 - 1982 The Guy Owen papers contain publicity material, including photographs, brochures, and press releases connected with the movie premiere of the film The Flim-Flam Man, based on Owen's book The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man. Also included are articles, news clippings and a eulogy about Owen, as well as literary magazines and journals containing his articles. Guy Owen (1925-1981) received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. A well-respected author and educator, Owen founded and edited the Southern Poetry Review, edited North Carolina Folklore, and served as Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He authored numerous novels, short stories, and poems, including Season of Fear and The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff. 1 box Owen, Guy, 1925- Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.

 Acquisitions Information

Gift and transfer, 1967-1987.

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Guy Owen Papers, MC 23, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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 Biographical Note

Guy Owen, Jr., was born on February 24, 1925, in Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina. He graduated from Clarkton High School in 1942, and worked at assorted odd jobs before joining the Army in 1943, serving in France and Germany. He returned to the United States in 1945 to attend the University of North Carolina, where he majored in English. In 1952, Owen married Dorothy Meadows Jennings of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in 1955.

Owen's first teaching experience was as instructor of English at Davidson College from 1949 to 1951. He also taught part-time at the University of North Carolina from 1951 to 1954, while completing his dissertation, and was associate professor of English at Elon College during the 1954-1955 school year.

In 1955, Owen accepted the position of associate professor of English at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida; he taught there until 1961. During this time, he wrote his first novel, Season of Fear, which was published in 1960.

Owen became a member of the faculty at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) in Raleigh in 1961, remaining there until his death twenty years later. While teaching American literature and creative writing courses, he completed and published three novels, two volumes of poems, and a collection of short stories. He also helped edit two anthologies of verse: New Southern Poets: Selected Poems from Southern Poetry Review and Contemporary Poets of North Carolina.

In 1958, Owen co-founded the poetry magazine Impetus, which in 1965 became Southern Poetry Review. He was also an editor of North Carolina Folklore.

Owen died of cancer in July 1981, at age 56.

 Scope and Content Note

The Guy Owen papers contain publicity material, including a screenplay, photographs, brochures, movie passes, and press releases related to the movie premiere of the film The Flim-Flam Man, based on Owen's book The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man. Also included are news clippings, articles, and a eulogy about Owen, as well literary magazines and journals containing Owen's works. Commentary about Owen and his works are also included.

Published copies of short stories in this collection include The Face on the Tombstone, Flim-Flam and the Buried Treasure, The Flim-Flam Man and the Widow Nickels, The Conversion of Doodle, The New Deputy, and Mordecai Jones and the Diamond Egg. Poems include At My Father's Grave, Pictures of Yoknapatawpha: On Looking at the Photographs by Martin J. Dain, For James (1926-1965), and My Father's Curse. Other writings include the article The Teacher, the Poet, and the Little Magazines and a draft of a review of Stanley Kunitz's The Testing Tree.

 Organization of the Collection

This collection is arranged by genre.

 Related Material Guy Owen Papers (#4287), Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Guy Owen Biographical File, UA 50.3 North Carolina State University--Faculty--History. Owen, Guy, 1925- American fiction--20th century American poetry--20th century Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century Film adaptations Folklore--North Carolina Photographs Poetry--Editing Promotional materials from the motion picture The Flim-Flam Man 1 1 1967 Photographs from the motion picture The Flim-Flam Man 1 2 1967 Newspaper clippings 1 3 1980 - 1981 Eulogy and biographical articles about Owen 1 4 1981 - 1982 Literary articles about Owen 1 5 1972, 1982 "American Pastoral: The Novels of Guy Owen," by R. J. Rundus, Pembroke Magazine 1972 "Animal Motifs in Guy Owen's Season of Fear: Clay Hampton's Tenuous Humanity," by Shelby Stephenson, Pembroke Magazine 1982 "Guy Owen," in Studies of Cultural and Social Sciences (Hiroshima, Japan) 1982 Photograph of Owen 1 6 1975 Scope and Contents note

St. Andrews Review, 1975

 Article and reviews by Owen 1 7 1967, 1971 Article: "The Teacher, the Poet, and the Little Magazines," Furman Studies 1967 Reviews: "New Writing in South Carolina," edited by William Peden and George Garrett, The South Carolina Review 1971 The Testing Tree, by Stanley Kunitz 1971 Poems by Owen 1 8 1972 "At My Father's Grave" and "Pictures of Yoknapatawpha: On Looking at the Photographs by Martin J. Dain," Mississippi Review 1972 "For James (1926-1965)" and "My Father's Curse," Southern Poetry Review 1972 Short stories by Owen 1 9 1967 - 1973 "The Conversion of Doodle," The Windhover 1967 "Mordecai Jones and the Diamond Egg," Appalachian Harvest 1970 "The New Deputy," The South Carolina Review 1973 Short stories by Owen 1 10 1974 - 1976 "The Flim-Flam Man and the Widow Nickels," New South Writing 1974 "Flim-Flam and the Buried Treasure," TWIGS XII 1975 "The Face on the Tombstone," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1976