J. O. Bailey

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James Osler Bailey (August 12, 1903 – 1979) was a professor of literature who taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He wrote on a wide slate of topics ranging from the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Hardy to science fiction and utopian literature.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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Edgar Allan Poe 19th-century American author, poet, editor and literary critic

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Thomas Hardy English novelist and poet

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.

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Bailey was born at Raleigh, North Carolina, to Thomas Benjamin Bailey, a city employee, and Nancy Priscilla (née Smith). He was educated at the University of North Carolina (A.B. 1924, M.A. 1927, Ph.D 1934) and taught English there from 1930. [1]

The Science Fiction Research Association gives recognition in the form of the Pilgrim Award in honor of his seminal work Pilgrims Through Space and Time. Reviewer Willy Ley, however, found the volume disappointing; while praising the core of the work, the master's thesis and doctoral dissertation written by Bailey years earlier, he faulted the remainder of the book as inferior, "obviously pasted to the original dissertation both loosely and clumsily." [2]

The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), founded in 1970, is the oldest, non-profit professional organization committed to encouraging, facilitating, and rewarding the study of science fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media. The organization’s international membership includes academically affiliated scholars, librarians, and archivists, as well as authors, editors, publishers, and readers. In addition to its facilitating the exchange of ideas within a network of science fiction and fantasy experts, SFRA holds an annual conference for the critical discussion of science fiction and fantasy where it confers a number of awards, and it produces the quarterly publication, SFRA Review, which features reviews, review essays, articles, interviews, and professional announcements.

The Pilgrim Award is presented by the Science Fiction Research Association for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship. It was created in 1970 and was named after J. O. Bailey’s pioneering book Pilgrims Through Space and Time. Fittingly, the first award was presented to Bailey.

Willy Ley German-American physicist

Willy Otto Oskar Ley was a German-American science writer and proponent of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.

He was struck by a car and died later from a blood clot, in 1979.

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He donated his correspondence with playwright Eugene O'Neill to The Museum of the City of New York. [3] His correspondence with publisher William Terry Crouch [4] and playwright Paul Green [5] are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill library.

Eugene ONeill American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama Long Day's Journey into Night is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Paul Green (playwright) American playwright

Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, which was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1926-1927.

Notes

  1. ↑ Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, vol. 2, R. Reginald, 1979, pg 804
  2. ↑ Willy Ley, "Book Review," Astounding Science Fiction , March 1948, pp.153-56.
  3. ↑ The Museum of the City of New York
  4. ↑ http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Couch,William_T%5B%5D.
  5. ↑ Paul Green Papers Inventory (#3693)

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