William R. Ferris
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American writer and scholar
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William R. Ferris's Degrees
- PhD English University of Pennsylvania
- Masters English Tulane University
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Why Is William R. Ferris Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Reynolds Ferris Jr. is an American author and scholar and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. With Judy Peiser he co-founded the Center for Southern Folklore in Memphis, Tennessee; he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
William R. Ferris's Published Works
Published Works
- Local Color: A Sense of Place In Folk Art (1982) (9)
- "My Idol Was Langston Hughes": The Poet, the Renaissance, and Their Enduring Influence (2010) (2)
- Eudora Welty: "... standing under a shower of blessings" (2003) (0)
- Harold Burson on interviewing Faulkner for the Memphis Commercial Appeal (2006) (0)
- About the Contributors (2003) (0)
- William Faulkner and Phil Stone (1969) (0)
- About the Contributors (2013) (0)
- Moon Pies and Memories (2013) (0)
- The Contributors (1989) (0)
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