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Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 13 items) |
Abstract | John Russell (1954-) is a white lawyer, entrepreneur, and writer from North Carolina. The John Russell Papers, 1980s-2007, document his literary work; the one billion dollar Envoy Corporation merger with Quintiles Transnational, a pharmaceutical outsourcing services company; and the emerging national effort to address the potential for bioterrorism. Materials include manuscript drafts of three novels and a videotape with an interview of Russell about Favorite Sons; two bound volumes documenting the acquisition and sale of Envoy Corporation and a binder on the merger with Pharma Services Holding, Inc.; a binder of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee and two videotapes with topically related programming. |
Creator | Russell, John, 1954- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, Anne Wells, November 2018
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, Anne Wells, November 2018
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John Russell is a white entrepreneur and attorney, as well as a novelist and creative writer, from North Carolina. He graduated in 1977 with a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Fleece, and wrote for the Daily Tar Heel and Cellar Door. He earned his M.A. at Columbia University, working in publishing until he attended Harvard Law, 1982-1985. He worked for Moore and Van Allen law firm before becoming executive vice president and general counsel of Quintiles, 1998-2007, and working at K&L Gates before retiring in December 2017. Russell also served on the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee and is the author of Favorite Sons (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992).
Back to TopThe John Russell Papers, 1980s-2007, document the literary work of a white entrepreneur and attorney from North Carolina; the one billion dollar Envoy Corporation merger with Quintiles Transnational, a pharmaceutical outsourcing services company, that involved massive data transport and storage that exceeded federal government capability and awareness at that time; and the emerging national effort to address the potential for bioterrorism. Materials include manuscript drafts of three novels by John Russell, one with marginal notes by Louis Rubin, and a videotape with an interview of Russell about Favorite Sons; two bound volumes documenting the acquisition and sale of Envoy Corporation and a binder on the merger with Pharma Services Holding, Inc.; a binder of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee and two videotapes with topically related programming (NC Now, WNCN).
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