![]() ![]() In 1966, he began teaching English in the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, located in the Appalachian Mountains of northeastern Georgia. ![]() He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Cornell University and a second Master's from Johns Hopkins University. ![]() His maternal grandmother, Margaret Pollard Smith, was an associate professor of English at Vassar College and his father was a famous landscape architect, named Brooks Edward Wigginton. His mother, Lucy Freelove Smith Wigginton, died eleven days later of "pneunomia due to acute pulmonary edema," according to her death certificate. He was convicted of child molestation in 1992.īrooks Eliot Wigginton was born in West Virginia on November 9, 1942. In 1986 he was named "Georgia Teacher of the Year" and in 1989 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. These were based on articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia. He was most widely known for developing the Foxfire Project, a writing project that led to a magazine and the series of best-selling Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all. JSTOR ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ![]() This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. ![]()
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