“R” is for Rubin, Louis Decimus, Jr. [1922-2013]. Teacher, author, editor, publisher. A native of Charleston, Rubin served in the army during World War II and obtained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1954. In 1957 he joined the faculty at Hollins College where he mentored future writers Annie Dillard and Lee Smith. Later at UNC-Chapel Hill, Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, and Kaye Gibbons were among his students. Rubin left teaching to concentrate on Algonquin Books, a press he had founded in 1983 to nourish young writers such as Dori Sanders. Among his many publications were Southern Renasence, Surfaces of a Diamond, Seaports of the South, Small Craft Advisory, and My Father’s People. During the course of his long and productive career, Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., acquired “a cultural mantle …as the Dean of Southern Literature.”
“R” is for Rubin, Louis Decimus, Jr.
