Erskine Caldwell Letters, . 1929-1973

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Erskine Caldwell Letters, . 1929-1973

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Letters, 1929-1931, from Erskine Caldwell (1903- ), to Richard Johns (1904-1970), editor of about material submitted by Caldwell to the magazine, the craft of writing, other material in other magazines and writers, and Caldwell's own work and publishing plans. There are a few family letters, 1943, to Margaret Bourke-White, from whom Caldwell had just been divorced; clippings about Caldwell; a typescript of a chapter from a biography of Caldwell dealing with his marriage to Helen Caldwell Cushman; and other items. Pagany, Pagany,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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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...