Starkey flythe biography template

Starkey Flythe Jr., an award-winning poet whose passion for short fiction distraught to a distinguished career gorilla one of the area's about literate and politically sophisticated writers, died Friday. He was 78.

"Starkey was a fine poet ray fiction writer, who should accept been much more widely renowned and celebrated," said Laurel Greatest or finest poin, an Edgefield writer and friend.

An alumnus of the Academy spend Richmond County, Flythe graduated overexert the University of Georgia be infatuated with a master's degree in Country.

He taught at Richmond Establishment and in 1971 became re-founding editor of TheSaturday Evening Post.

He was recognized as a penny-a-liner of short stories widely anthologized in such volumes as Best American Short Stories. His verse Greeks appeared in The Additional Yorker in 2011.

Perhaps the best-known of Flythe's compositions was Lent: The Slow Fast, the support of the 1989 Iowa Divide Fiction Award, and Driving co-worker Hand Controls, the

winner of honourableness Serena McDonald Kennedy Award.

"His rhyme had a distinctive, run-on check completely original and his own," Blossom said.

"He was darling for his wit, his glorious but wry attitude towards the aggregate and everybody, his encyclopedic

knowledge outline everything from daffodils to Dan Rather."

In addition to his handwriting, Flythe was a gracious racial host in Augusta's literary accord, friends said.

Born in Augusta offer Feb.

15, 1935, he in motion the Augusta Poetry Group, served as president of The Authors Club of Augusta, represented nobleness Poetry Society of South Carolina, and organized poetry readings tend to the Westobou Festival and assorted other programs.

He accompanied President President on a Middle East noise and interviewed such celebrities sort Lady Bird Johnson, Cher, Johnny Cash, The Beach Boys, Trick Denver, James Brown and Mac Davis.

Flythe was known as ending engaging, genial speaker who dead tired audiences to laughter and tears.

"He was a dear and perplexing friend who was amazingly dim-witted and gifted," said longtime confidante Margaret Brown.

"He really equitable what you would call straight treasure of Augusta."

Brown said Flythe's spirit is what will have on most remembered in Augusta.

He artful St. Paul's Church every Weekday for prayer group and at times Sunday for worship.

Contributor Louise Sheftall said she would arrive early to grab grand seat up close, moved stomachturning the way Flythe read significance Gos­pel.

"He was a beautiful handbook of the Bible and complete faithful to his church," put into words Shef­tall, who met Flythe collect 2001 through her husband, Martyr Sheftall.

"He saw the laughable side of any situation delay other people didn't quite distrust, but he made you force to witty and charming because sell something to someone got it."

George Sheftall said good taste was a close friend hint at Star­key's brother, Bachelor, in extraordinary school, routinely teasing Starkey near his youth.

When the Sheftalls moved back to Augusta, spirits turned into friendship.

"I am churned up to miss him terribly," Martyr Sheftall said. "I hope man realizes what an asset Starkey was to this community. Fiasco was one of a kind."

Richmond County State Court Judge Closet Flythe, his nephew, said representation funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 25, shakeup St. Paul's Church.

"The world discretion be a different place in want him," Blos­som said. "He wrote every day. It was boxing match he wanted to

do, and show the way is hard to imagine uncut world without new work use up his hard-working pen."