 Blackford, a UVA graduate and Oxford-educated Rhodes Scholar, had been a journalist, staffer at the Southern Leadership Council, editor at the LSU Press, and press secretary to Virginia Governor Linwood Holton before returning to the University. Among the distinguished authors he discovered are Robert Olen Butler, Ann Beattie, T. R. Pearson, and Michael Knight. In 1999, he also published a lost short story by William Faulkner. Blackford edited the journal for nearly three decades before retiring in 2003.
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The Virginia Quarterly Review