Professor Emeritus of English
A.B. Princeton
M.A., Ph.D. Harvard

email: Anthony Abbott

Professor Abbott's major fields of interest include: 
(1) modern drama, (2)creative writing with emphasis on poetry, and
(3)religion and literature. He has written two books on modern drama, Shaw and Christianity (1965) and The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama (1989). His books of poems include The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat (1989), A Small Thing Like a Breath (1993), The Search for Wonder in the Cradle of the World (2000), and The Man Who (2005). In 2003 he received the Novello Prize from the Novello Festival Press of Charlotte for his first novel, Leaving Maggie Hope, and in 2007 he published The Three Great Secret Things, a sequel to the first novel. 

Though Professor Abbott is formally retired from full-time teaching, he continues to teach in the Humanities program at Davidson. He regularly gives poetry workshops at Queens University of Charlotte. In the spring of 2007 he served as Writer-in-Residence at Lenoir Rhyne College, and in March of 2008 received the Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature from Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte.