Turner Cassity: Georgia, Mississippi, South Africa

Turner Cassity (1929-2009). From the Georgia Enclyclopedia:

Cassity attended Columbia University in New York City on the GI Bill and received a master's degree in library science in 1955. After graduation he worked for the Jackson Public Library and then moved to South Africa, where he worked from 1958 to 1960 as a librarian, first in Pretoria and then near Johannesburg. He then returned to the Jackson Public Library for one year before spending four months in Europe.

In 1962 Cassity accepted the position of librarian in the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University in Atlanta, from which he retired in 1991. He also cofounded the Callanwolde Readings Program, which highlights poets and writers, with poet Michael Mott.