C. Hugh Holman

Clarence Hugh Holman (February 24, 1914 – October 14, 1981) was an American literary scholar, academic administrator and detective novelist. He was a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and its Provost from 1966 to 1968. He was the vice president of the National Humanities Center. He was the author of many books about Southern literature and the founding co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal. He was the recipient of several awards.

Early life Clarence Hugh Holman was born on February 24, 1914, in Cross Anchor, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. He was educated in Gaffney and Clinton. He subsequently earned a bachelor of arts from the same institution in 1939. He was also the chairman of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association in 1970.

Holman was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967, the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1975, an award for excellence in writing from Winthrop College in 1976, and the O. Max Gardner Award from UNC in 1977.

Works Detective novels

Literary scholarship