02672nam 2200625 a 450 991081590730332120240516095419.01-283-39402-297866133940261-61147-494-9(CKB)2670000000139709(EBL)829922(OCoLC)769344319(SSID)ssj0000575777(PQKBManifestationID)12215807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000575777(PQKBWorkID)10552663(PQKB)10559605(MiAaPQ)EBC829922(Au-PeEL)EBL829922(CaPaEBR)ebr10554830(CaONFJC)MIL339402(EXLCZ)99267000000013970920110912d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDeath of a rebel the Charlie Fenton story /Scott Donaldson1st ed.Madison Fairleigh Dickinson University Pressc20121 online resource (199 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-624-0 1-61147-493-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.First sighting -- Bomber boy -- The young academic -- Hemingway vs. Fenton -- Carving a career -- A different planet -- Sailing through air -- What might have been -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on sources -- A Charles A. Fenton bibliography -- Other works consulted.Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismaticteacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. At the time he was apparently at the peak of his career. He had written excellent books on Hemingway and Stephen Vincent Benét, had three other books in press, and was working on a new version of his novel about World War II (a 1945 account won the Doubleday Twentieth Century Fox award). He had earned Guggenheim and ACLS grants. Students flocked to his courses. He was widely regardBiographersUnited StatesBiographyCollege teachersUnited StatesBiographyAuthors, American20th centuryBiographyBiographersCollege teachersAuthors, American810.9BDonaldson Scott1928-2020.1216069MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815907303321Death of a rebel3987293UNINA