Background
Davis, Paxton was born on May 7, 1925 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Son of James Paxton and Emily (McDowell) Davis.
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A fictional account told in the first person by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Scott, and Roald Amundsen of the motives that drove them and the physical and psychological difficulties they encountered in their attempts to be "first at the South Pole."
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When Paxton Davis and his fellow soldiers returned from WW II, they found a changed America. In A BOY NO MORE, Davis describes the world that awaited them--a world created by the generation that gave us our amazing triumph in WW II and powered our emergence as global superstar. Davis was typical. He took up schooling at Johns Hopkins, went to work, married and begat. This loving book is among the finest of his creations. "Readers of this disarming, stylish story will treasure the newspaperman's early experiences." (Publishers Weekly) A BOY NO MORE completes a trilogy which began with BEING A BOY and continued with A BOY'S WAR.
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Davis, Paxton was born on May 7, 1925 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Son of James Paxton and Emily (McDowell) Davis.
Student, Virginia Military Institute, 1942-1943; AB, Johns Hopkins University, 1949.
Reporter, Winston-Salem Journal, 1949-1951;
Reporter, Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, 1951-1952;
Reporter, Twin City Sentinel, Winston-Salem, 1952-1953;
faculty, Washington and Lee University, 1953-1976;
professor journalism, Washington and Lee University, 1963-1976;
department chairman, Washington and Lee University, 1968-1974. Visiting scholar Cambridge U., 1973. Fellow Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Va.Ctr. for the Creative Arts, 1983, MacDowell Colony, 1989.
Adjunct professor.Roanoke College, 1980.
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Board of directors Virginia State Library., 1986-1990. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946, China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations. Member Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Wylma Elizabeth Pooser, June 6, 1951 (divorced 1971). Children: Elizabeth Keith, Anne Beckley, James Paxton III. Married Peggy Painter Camper, July 21, 1973.