Loyd Little

Loyd Harry Little (12 September 1940 – 17 October 2020) was an American writer and journalist, best known for his debut novel Parthian Shot (1975) that won the inaugural Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1976. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he joined the Green Berets in 1962 and served in the Vietnam War. He later taught fiction writing at University of North Carolina. Some of his other notable works are In the Village of the Man (1988) and Roll On Sugaree (2013).^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

References

1. Catan, Wayne (28 April 2021). "In Memory of Loyd Little, First-Ever PEN/Hemingway Award Winner (1976) | The Hemingway Society". Hemingway Society. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
2. "Hemingway Unit Gives First Prize". The New York Times. 7 May 1976. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
3. "Obituary for Loyd Harry Little at Cremation Society of the Carolinas". Cremation Society of the Carolinas. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
4. Bates, Milton J. (1 September 2023). The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-520-91752-1.
5. A Checklist of Vietnam War Literature. Ultramarine Publishing. 1994. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-89366-286-8.
6. Lomperis, Timothy J.; Pratt, John Clark (1987). "Reading the Wind": The Literature of the Vietnam War : an Interpretative Critique. Duke University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8223-0749-5.
7. Gilman, Owen W. (1992). Vietnam and the Southern Imagination. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-61703-534-0.