EAST (CHARLES) PAPERS
Mss. 3471
(ca. 1849-ongoing)
Charles East Papers
(Mss. 3471)
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Biographical Note
Charles East is an editor, author, and collector of historical photographs. A native of Shelby, Mississippi,
born December 11, 1924, East is the son of Elmo M. and Mabel (Gradolph) East, and husband of Sarah
Simmons. He received a B.A. in 1948 and an M.A. in 1962 from Louisiana State University. He was an
editorial assistant for Collier=s magazine in New York, 1948-1949. He was a reporter, 1949-1952, and
editor of the Sunday Magazine Section, 1952-1955, for the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate; and he was
a reporter, 1955-1957, and assistant city editor, 1958-1962, for the State-Times. East was Editor , 1962-
1970, and Director, 1970-1975, of the Louisiana State University Press, and he was Editor and Assistant
Director of the University of Georgia Press, 1980-1983.
Books written or edited by Charles East include:
Four Louisiana Civil War Stories. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana Civil War Centennial Commission,
1961)
AThe Journalistic Career of Henry Watkins Allen.@ Thesis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University, 1962)
A Walking Tour of Historic Baton Rouge. (Baton Rouge: Committee for the Preservation of the Port
Hudson Battlefield, c1963)
Where the Music Was, Fifteen Stories. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965)
The Face of Louisiana. Photos. by Elemore Morgan. Text by Charles East. (Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1969)
Baton Rouge: A Civil War Album. (Baton Rouge: East, c1977)
The New Writers of the South: a Fiction Anthology. (Athens: University of Georgia Press,
c1987)
The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1991)
The Flannery O=Connor Award: Selected Stories. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1992)
Distant Friends and Intimate Strangers, Stories. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1996)
Articles, stories, and reviews written by Charles East include:
"The Welty Photographs." Review of Photographs, by Eudora Welty. Southern Review 26.2 (Spring
1990): 449-55.
"Oxford-in-Yoknapatawpha." Virginia Quarterly Review 74.3 (Summer 1998): 475-89.
"A Summer Story." Virginia Quarterly Review 30.1 (Winter 1954): 83-94.
"Stopover." Yale Review 41.1 (Summer 1952): 579-90.
"The Last Person." Southern Review 12.3 (Summer 1976): 445-53.
"Pavane for a Dead Princess." Southern Review 32.4 (Fall 1996): 743-52.
"The Second Summer of the War." Sweanee Review 104.2 (Spring 1996): 175-88.
"The Death of Huey Long: A Photographic Essay." Southern Review 21.2 (Spring 1985): 247-
56.
"The Dream-Career of James Prewitt." Southern Review 29.3 (Summer 1993): 465-85.
"Discovering Eudora Welty." Sewanee Review 110.3 (Summer 2002): 426-37.
"My Life as an Editor." Sewanee Review 107.3 (Summer 1999): 384-401.
"Where the Music Was." Antioch Review 23.4 (Winter 1963-1964): 477-84.