Manley, Frank

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MANLEY, Frank

MANLEY, Frank. American, b. 1930. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Intellectual history. Career: From Instructor to Assistant Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1959-64; Candler Professor of Renaissance Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1982-2000 (Associate Professor to Professor of English, 1964-82; Chairman, 1968-70). Guggenheim Fellow, 1966-67, 1978-79. Publications: Within the Ribbons, 1989. POETRY: Resultances, 1980; (with F. Watkins) Some Poems and Some Talk about Poetry, 1985; The Emperor, 2001. PLAYS: Two Masters, 1985; The Evidence, 1991; The Trap, 1993. NOVELS: The Cock-fighter, 1998; True Hope, 2002. STORIES: Among Prisoners, 2000. EDITOR: J. Donne, The Anniversaries, 1963; (and trans.) R. Pace, De Fructu Qui ex Doctrina Percipitur, 1967; G. Chapman, All Fools, 1968; St. Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort, 1977; (and trans.) St. Thomas More, Letter to Bugenhangen, 1991. Address: 401 Adams St, Decatur, GA 30030, U.S.A.