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The University of Georgia Press has revoked a prominent fiction award to Brad Vice, whose short-story collection contains uncredited material from a book published decades ago, the publisher recently announced. The press has also recalled the collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, from bookstores. In a written statement, the press said it had learned on October 13 "that one of the stories in Mr. Vice's collection, 'Tuscaloosa Knights,' contained uncredited material from the fourth chapter of the first section of Carl Carmer's Stars Fell on Alabama." It said it had immediately frozen stock of Mr. Vice's book and contacted the author, who "admitted that 'Tuscaloosa Knights' borrows heavily from Stars Fell on Alabama [and] that he had made a terrible mistake in neglecting to acknowledge Carmer's work." In 2004, the press had awarded Mr. Vice the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Bear Bryant Funeral Train. Mr. Carmer's book, a nonfiction account of early-20th-century Alabama life, was originally published in 1934 but is still under copyright and was reissued by the University of Alabama Press in 2000. Mr. Vice's book was published in September….The University of Georgia Press said that the Flannery O'Connor Award would be given to one of the other finalists from last year's competition. Chronicle of Higher Education 10/31/05 http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005103106n.htm
Posted by P. Kaufman at October 31, 2005 7:35 AM
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