Discipline: Literature

Daphne Athas

Discipline: Literature
Region: Chapel Hill, NC
MacDowell Fellowships: 1962
Daphne Athas is an American author best known for the 1971 novel Entering Ephesus, which was included on Time Magazine's Ten Best Fiction List in 1971. Her other books include The Weather of the Heart, The Fourth World, and Greece by Prejudice. Athas is the recipient of the Sir Raleigh Award and the University of North Carolina's Lifetime Mentor Award. Athas attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she graduated in 1943. During her time as a writing student at UNC she worked with Phillips Russell and Betty Smith, the author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.