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Photo Gallery: Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958)
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Renowned Appalachian poet, novelist, and farmer, Byron
Herbert Reece lived most of his life near this site. Here he composed, to
critical acclaim, four volumes of poetry and two novels, Better a Dinner of
Herbs and The Hawk and the Sun. Reece wasa five-time recipient of the
Georgia Writers Association's literary achievement award and was nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Bow Down in Jericho. He served as
poet-in-residence at the University of California at Los Angeles, Emory
University, and Young Harris College. Suffering from tuberculosis, Reece
took his own life three months before his forty-first birthday. He is buried
in Old Union Cemetery near Young Harris.
2006.2 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society, the Byron Herbert Reece
Society, Union County Government, Union County Historical Society, and Young
Harris College 144-1
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