Louis D. Rubin, Jr., man of letters, dies at 89
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Louis D. Rubin, Jr., a curmudgeonly patron of contemporary Southern writing who as an author, teacher, editor and publisher has died, three days before his 90th birthday.
A Charleston, South Carolina, native who switched from journalism to academia in the 1950s, Rubin for decades mentored and published Southern writers. He taught such future stars as John Barth, Annie Dillard and Kaye Gibbons and, through Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, published fiction by Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith and others. Rubin's passions also included baseball, boats, trains and his Jewish roots. (AP)
