George Addison Scarbrough (October 20, 1915 – 2008) was a poet in the United States known for his Appalachian poetry from the 1930s and 1940s.

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awarded him an honorary doctorate degree. He was born in Patty, Tennessee and studied at the

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from 1935 to 1936 and the

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from 1942 to 1943. He graduated from Lincoln Memorial University in 1947 with a B.A. and in 1954 he received an M.A. from the University of Tennessee. Scarbrough received a PEN American Branch Grant, two Carnegie Fund grants, a Borestone Mountain Award, ''Spirit Magazine''’s Sheena Albanese Memorial Prize, the Tennessee governor’s Outstanding Tennessean Award in Literature, a Fellowship of Southern Writers’ James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South, Poetry's Bess Hokin Prize, and a Knoxville Writers’ Guild Career Achievement Award. He was and inducted in the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame. A collection of his papers are at the

. Randy Mackin of

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wrote the book ''George Scarbrough, Appalachian Poet'' about him.

Work

*''Tellico Blue'' (1948) *''The Course is Upward'' (1951) *''Summer So-Called'' (1956) * ''New and Selected Poems'' (1977) *''A Summer Ago'' (1986), a novel * and ''Invitation to Kim'' (1989) *''Under the Lemon Tree'' (2011), published posthumously

References

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