Render Award “in recognition of outstanding scholarship on the life and works of Charles Waddell Chesnutt.” Personal life Render moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1984. She died on February 3, 1986, at Tampa General Hospital. Render married Frank Wyatt Render in 1935 and had one son. Selected works The characteristics of women in the non-dramatic prose works of Robert Green, M.A., 1952 Eagle with clipped wings : form and feeling in the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1962 Afro-American women, the outstanding and the obscure, 1975 Charles W. Chesnutt, 1980 Folklore in the fiction of Charles W. Chestnutt : factual, funny, fantastic, forthright and functional, 1981 References 1913 births 1986 deaths 20th-century American women 20th-century American women educators African-American academics African-American women academics American women academics Florida A&M University faculty North Carolina Central University faculty Tennessee State University alumni Ohio State University alumni Peabody College alumni People from Atlanta Librarians at the Library of Congress Writers from Atlanta American academics of English literature American women librarians American librarians American curators American women curators 20th-century African-American academics