Charles East:
Born in Shelby, Mississippi, on December 11, 1924, received a B. A. in 1948 and a M. A. in 1962 from Louisiana State University. After his graduation from LSU, Charles and Sarah moved to New York City in 1948 where he worked for Collier’s magazine as an editorial assistant.
He then became a reporter and then editor of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate (1949 to 1957). From 1958 to 1962, East worked for the State-Times before becoming the editor and then director of the Louisiana State University Press. From 1980 to 1983 he was editor and director of the University of Georgia Press. He served as the editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award series from 1981 to 2001.
East was an editor, a newspaperman, an author, a freelance writer, and collected photographs. His papers are in the Louisiana State University library.
His best known works are Where the Music Was: Fifteen Stories (1965), a collection of his own writings, which won the Henry Bellaman Award, and Distant Friends and Intimate Strangers (1996).
My idea of happiness is a rainy afternoon with a nice book to read.
