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Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States. Hollins enrolls about 800 undergraduate and graduate students. As Virginia's first chartered women's ...
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. Ashleigh Hale. Ruth Hale (feminist) Cathryn Hankla. Mary Hatten. Lyda Hill. Mary Adams Holmes. Ann Hopkins. Anne Lester Hudson.
Tama Janowitz, American author, M.A. 1979, commonly grouped with 1980s Brat Pack (literary) Jill McCorkle, author, 1981. Kevin Prufer, poet, novelist, essayist, editor, M.A. 1994. 2024 Rilke Prize for American poetry. Candice F. Ransom, author of children's books. Ethel Morgan Smith, author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American ...
Mary Dana Hinton is an American academic and university administrator. She served as the President of the College of Saint Benedict from 2014 to 2020, and was appointed as the president of Hollins University in August 2020. She is the first African-American president of Hollins. Prior to her presidencies, she served as the Vice President for ...
Cathryn ("Cathy") Hankla (born March 20, 1958) is an American poet, novelist, essayist and author of short stories. She is professor emerita of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University in Hollins, Virginia, and served as inaugural director of Hollins' Jackson Center for Creative Writing from 2008 to 2012.
Richard Henry Wilde Dillard [2] was born in Roanoke, Virginia, Dillard was best known as a poet. [2] He is also highly regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. [3] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Roanoke College and went on to ...
George Tayloe was born October 15, 1804, at Mount Airy in Richmond County, Virginia, the ninth of fifteen children of Hon. John Tayloe III.He was born into a large aristocratic family of great wealth that had accumulated over three generations, beginning with William Tayloe (the nephew), son of the immigrant, one of the richest plantation owners and businessmen in Virginia for his generation.
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