Bettie Sellers
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| Type: | Color photographs |
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| Creator: | Sanders, Darby Carl |
| Title: | Bettie Sellers |
| Description: | Photograph of Georgia poet Bettie Sellers. She stands behind a closed screen door which leads into a brick house. Sellers is best known for her poems about life in southern Appalachia. After earning a B.A. from LaGrange College in 1958 and an M.A. from the University of Georgia in 1966, she accepted a position as professor of English at Young Harris College. After thirty-two years of service to the college, Sellers retired in 1997. In 1992 she was named Poet of the Year by the American Pen Women, and in 1997 Governor Zell Miller named her Poet Laureate of Georgia, a position she held for three years. |
| Subjects: | Authors, American--Georgia--Young Harris | Women authors, American--Georgia--Young Harris | Poets, American--Georgia--Young Harris | Women poets, American--Georgia--Young Harris | Poets laureate--Georgia | Screen doors--Georgia--Young Harris | College teachers--Georgia--Young Harris | Women college teachers--Georgia--Young Harris | Young Harris College--Faculty | Sellers, Bettie M. | Young Harris (Ga.) | Towns County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |
| Rights and Usage: | Photograph by Darby Carl Sanders, New Georgia Encyclopedia. |
| Related Materials: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-475 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-491 |
| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |