[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 10 (Thursday, January 25, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S567]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO ELIZABETH SEWELL

 Mr. EDWARDS. Mr. President, I rise today to note with sadness 
the recent death of North Carolina author Elizabeth Sewell. Dr. Sewell 
succumbed to her third bout with cancer on January 12, at the age of 
81.
  Dr. Sewell was a writer of international renown. She authored four 
novels, three volumes of poetry, and 5 volumes of criticism, as well as 
scores of short stories.
  Dr. Sewell was born in India and educated at Cambridge University in 
England. She made Greensboro, North Carolina her home starting in 1960 
and became a citizen of the United States in 1974.
  A gifted writer and thinker, Dr. Sewell studied and wrote on topics 
as diverse as race relations in the South, the role of the imagination 
in science and literature, and life in the academic world.
  Her work garnered the prestigious poetry, fiction and non-fiction 
award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 
1981.
  Elizabeth Sewell was more than a prolific writer. She was also a 
talented teacher who shared her love of great literature with students 
in North Carolina and elsewhere.
  She served as a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at Vassar 
College, the University of Notre Dame, and Bennett College in 
Greensboro. She became Joe Rosenthal Professor of Humanities at the 
University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1974.
  As North Carolinians, we are proud to claim Elizabeth Sewell as one 
of our own. All Americans--indeed, people all over the world--were 
privileged that she chose to share her many gifts with us.

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