Erskine Caldwell Papers 1936-1942

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Erskine Caldwell Papers 1936-1942

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Papers of the American author, dramatist, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, short story writer. Correspondence, financial records, writings, notes, telegrams, manuscripts, and memorabilia. The Papers document the 7-year span of the author’s professional and personal relationship with photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White. Correspondence which is of the greatest depth and duration includes that of Margaret Bourke-White, parents Ira and Caroline Caldwell, former wife Helen Caldwell Cushman, publishers Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., agent Maxim Lieber, , artist Alfred Morang, , and Caldwell and Bourke-White secretaries Margaret Salter and Margaret Smith, both of whom presided over the couple’s often long-distance correspondence. Life PM Writings comprise articles about the Russian front, typescript manuscripts and/or production records of books, short stories, production records, scripts, including untitled radio scripts from Moscow; miscellaneous drafts, typescript manuscripts, and notes on trips; press wireless releases Caldwell sent from Moscow while covering the German invasion of Russia for and ; and printed short stories. Life PM

8 linear ft.

eng,

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Caldwell, Ira Sylvester, 1870-1944

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Caldwell, Helen.

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Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous award...

Lieber, Maxim.

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Morang, Alfred, 1901-1958

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