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Manley, Frank was born on November 13, 1930 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Aloysius F. and Kathryn L. (Needham) Manley.
( In True Hope Frank Manley eloquently limns the mysterie...)
In True Hope Frank Manley eloquently limns the mysteries of the soul with the story of a man named Al, whose life has been defined by marriage, drunkenness, and prison—in that order. When he is released from prison for good behavior, sobered up and in search of salvation, he does a short stint in a halfway house, then heads for the small town in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains where Tom, his father-in-law, lives. Tom is an odd duck, with pyromaniacal tendencies, but he’s the only thing Al has left of Kate, his beloved wife, whose death haunts him still. Tom and Al are a hapless pair, and they proceed to get themselves in a whole lot of trouble together. All the while, Al is courting Laurie, whose soul is as lost as his. They find solace in each other’s company and make plans for the future. When these plans go disastrously awry, Al experiences a spiritual epiphany that changes his life. True Hope is a story of gut-wrenching brutality and wholehearted compassion, told tenderly, with humor, in powerful, unadorned prose.
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Manley, Frank was born on November 13, 1930 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Aloysius F. and Kathryn L. (Needham) Manley.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1930, Manley was educated at the Marist School in Atlanta and went on to study English Literature at Emory University, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1952 and Master of Arts He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1959.
In 1953. He taught English at Yale University from 1959 to 1964 before returning to Emory as an associate professor in 1964. He remained there until his retirement in 2000, from 1982 as Charles Howard Candler Professor of Renaissance Literature. He founded a creative writing programme and co-founded the Playwriting Center.
From around 1970 Manley published as a creative artist, with poems, plays, short stories and novels to his name.
He was twice awarded a Georgia Author of the Year Award, for the novel The Cockfighter (1998) and for the short story collection Among Prisoners (2000). His main academic publications were an edition of John Donne"s Anniversaries (1963) and an edition of Thomas More"s Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1976).
Frank Manley Elementary School in Drayton Plains, Michigan was named in his honor.
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With United States Army, 1952-1955. Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors.
Married Carolyn Mary Holliday, March 14, 1952. Children: Evelyn, Mary.