United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Hulett, Keith2002-08-06Encyclopedia article about Frank Manley. The author of poems, plays, novels, and short stories, Manley writes mostly about southern characters in marginal encounters that force them to engage spiritual questions or dilemmas of faith and reason. Moving easily between academic and literary careers, Manley has produced a wide-ranging body of work, with critical editions of John Donne and Sir Thomas More, poems about Roman emperors, and violent tales involving trailer parks and mountain cockfighting arenas. Manley grew up in Atlanta during the years before World War II (1941-45), yet he emerged as a southern writer much later, midway through what could be considered his first career, as professor of Renaissance English literature at Emory University. His various awards for creative writing--which include two Georgia Author of the Year awards (one for fiction and one for short stories/anthologies), a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and first prize at the 1985 Humana Festival of New American Plays--have contributed to a list of already impressive achievements.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Manley, FrankAuthors, American--Georgia--AtlantaNovelists, American--Georgia--AtlantaPoets, American--Georgia--AtlantaEmory University--FacultyCollege teachers--Georgia--AtlantaCritics--Georgia--AtlantaDramatists--Georgia--AtlantaFrank Manley (b. 1930)Text