Background

George Core was born on the 12th of January, 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Education

George Core attended Transylvania College and completed a Bachelor's degree at Vanderbilt University in 1959 and a Master’s degree in 1960. Later he studied at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1971.

Career

George Core served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1960-64. Soon after that, George began his academic career as a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, from 1965 to 1966. He also served as an instructor in English at Davidson College, Davidson from 1966 to 1968. In 1968 he was appointed as an assistant professor of English at the University of Georgia, Athens and at the same time he worked as a senior editor at the University of Georgia Press till 1973.

George Core has had a long tenure as editor of one of America's oldest literary magazines, the prestigious Sewanee Review, where he has served in that post since 1973. He worked as an associate professor, then an adjunct professor of English at the University of the South in 1973. George was a consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities in 1974 and a visiting professor at Emory University in 1976.

Core has also served as the editor of several books, including compilations of critical essays such as a book on short-story writer Katherine Anne Porter and another on postbellum literature, specifically those writings covering the period following the U.S. Civil War and on into the early twentieth century. In his 1993 collection titled “The Critics Who Made Us: Essays” from the Sewanee Review, Core gathers together twenty essays by a variety of British and American literary critics who have contributed to the magazine, providing critical essays about authors such as Robert Penn Warren and George Orwell. His book “Contemporary Southern Writers” was written in 1999. Core has evaluated manuscripts for many university presses, including the University of Illinois, Louisiana State University, and the University of Missouri. He was a contributor to periodicals such as Mississippi Quarterly in 1995, Review of Contemporary Fiction in 1994, Sewanee Review in 1992, Virginia Quarterly Review in 1994, New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World.

Achievements

• As a long-time editor of the Sewanee Review, George Core has helped to cultivate the careers of such writers as historian Shelby Foote and the poet Luis D. Rubin. His editorial and critical vision has made the oldest continuously published quarterly in the United States also the best. Without changing the magazine’s essential character, he made the Review less deliberately southern, and his introduction of issues devoted to specific themes or subjects has given the Sewanee Review an intellectual coherence unique among literary quarterlies.
  
  Two features of The Sewanee Review, which are staples of the magazine, were begun by Mr. Core - the short book reviews in the magazine and the organization of each issue around a theme. He also started the practice of publishing themed issues, which have become a recognizable feature of the magazine.
  
  George Core was a fellow of National Endowment for Humanities Younger Humanist from 1972 to 1973.

Membership

George Core was a member of the Modern Language Association, Society for the Study of Southern Literature (secretary-treasurer, 1973-76), South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers (treasurer).

• Society for the Study of Southern Literature , United States

  1973 - 1976

Connections

George Core is married to Susan Darnell. They have four children.

Wife:

Susan Darnell