Guy Davenport
Novelist, short story writer, poet, illustrator, translator, teacher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Life Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on November 23, 1927. His father was an agent for the Railway Express Agency. Davenport said that he became a reader only at 10, with a neighbor’s gift of one of the Tarzan series. At age eleven, he began a neighborhood newspaper, drawing all the illustrations and writing all the stories. At 13, he "broke [his] right leg and was laid up for a wearisome while"; it was then that he began "reading with real interest", beginning with a biography of Leonardo. He left high school early and enrolled at Duke University a few weeks after his seventeenth birthday. At Duke, he studied art , graduating with a BA summa cum laude in classics and English literature. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa his junior year.
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