Frank Manley (13 November 1930 – 11 November 2009) was Charles Howard Candler Professor of Renaissance Literature at

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and an award-winning fiction author.

Life

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1930, Manley was educated at the Marist School in Atlanta and went on to study English literature at

, where he graduated B.A. in 1952 and M.A. in 1953. He obtained his Ph.D. from

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in 1959. He taught English at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

from 1959 to 1964 before returning to Emory as an associate professor in 1964. He remained there until his retirement in 2000, from 1982 as Charles Howard Candler Professor of Renaissance Literature. He founded a creative writing programme and co-founded the Playwriting Center. From around 1970 Manley published as a creative artist, with poems, plays, short stories and novels to his name. He was twice awarded a Georgia Author of the Year Award, for the novel ''The Cockfighter'' (1998) and for the short story collection ''Among Prisoners'' (2000). His main academic publications were an edition of

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's ''Anniversaries'' (1963) and an edition of

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's '' Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation'' (1976). Frank Manley Elementary School in

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was named in his honor.

Works

Poetry

* ''Resultances'' (1980) * ''The Emperors'' (2001)

Plays

* ''Two Masters'' (1985) * ''Prior Engagements'' (1987) * ''The Evidence'' (1990) * ''Married Life'' (1996) * ''Learning to Dance'' (1998)

Prose fiction

* ''Within the Ribbons'' (1989) - short stories
reviewed in the ''LA Times''
* ''The Cockfighter'' (1998) - novel

* ''Among Prisoners'' (2000) - short stories * ''True Hope'' (2002) - novel

External links

* http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/spring99/briefs_drmwvr_pgs/people_brief.html * http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/frank-manley-1930-2009 * http://clatl.com/atlanta/emory-university-pays-tribute-to-the-late-frank-manley/Content?oid=1286555 * http://www.artsatl.com/2010/01/remembering-atlanta-playwright-poet-storyteller-frank-manley-by-vincent-murphy/ * http://www.gf.org/fellows/9313-frank-manley
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
Frank Manley papers, 1959-2009
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