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Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bill Herron Papers, #4224, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Bill Herron in 1979.

Additions received from Bill Herron in August 1980 and August 1982.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, February 2011; Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2021 and January 2022

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• American fiction--20th century.
• American poetry--20th century.
• Americans--Europe--History--20th century.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Authors, American--Interviews.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Herron, Bill, 1943-
• Stoney.
• Travelers--Europe--Diaries.

Bill Herron (1943-) was a North Carolina-based author of poems, plays, and fiction. Published works include American Peasant, The Boy Christ's Ecstasy, and Rituals of Our Time.

The collection contains drafts and published works of Bill Herron (1934-). Included are typescripts of novels, novellas, collected stories, poems, and plays, letters, a 1977-1978 European travel diary, translated works, poetry reviews, songs, and other writings by Herron. Also included are tape recordings of an interview with Herron and his musical play, "Stoney."

• Audiocassettes (C-4224/1-2)