Fred Davis Chappell (born May 28, 1936 in Canton, North Carolina) is an author and poet. Fred Chappell Biography He retired after 40 years as an English professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. UNC News release - Poet Fred Chappell to present Thomas Wolfe Lecture Oct. 6 He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. North Carolina Poet Laureate | Biography: Fred Chappell He attended Duke University.
His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.
His literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.