Brainard Cheney

Brainard Cheney
Fellow: Awarded 1941
Field of Study: Fiction
Competition: US & Canada
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1941–42:
CHENEY, BRAINARD: Appointed for creative writing; tenure, twelve months from April 1, 1941.
Born June 3, 1900, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Education: The Citadel, 1917–19; University of Georgia, 1924; Vanderbilt University, 1924–25.
Member of the Staff, 1925–40, Nashville Banner.
Publications: Lightwood, 1939. Contributor to Contemporary Southern Prose, 1940.