Staige D. Blackford

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Staige D. Blackford (1931-2003) was the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review.[1]

Blackford graduated from the University of Virginia in 1952 and was later a Rhodes Scholar.[2] He served as a press secretary for Virginia Governor A. Linwood Holton.[3] Among the writers he discovered at VQR was Robert Olen Butler, whose first short story he published.

References

  1. ↑ Obituary, New York Times, June 25, 2003
  2. ↑ Obituary, The Virginia Pilot, June 29, 2003, B7
  3. ↑ Obituary, The Virginia Pilot, June 29, 2003, B7

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