Edwin M. Yoder Papers (#4963) 1945-1998

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Edwin M. Yoder Papers (#4963) 1945-1998

Edwin M. Yoder, native North Carolinian, journalist, writer, and journalism professor. A 1956 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Yoder wrote editorials and columns for the , 1958-1961; the , 1961-1964 and 1965-1975; the , 1975-1981, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979; and the Washington Post Writers Group syndicate, 1981-1996. He taught history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1964-1965, and, in 1991, became professor of journalism and humanities at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. The collection contains correspondence, columns, and other materials of Edwin Yoder. Professional correspondence consists of letters from readers, colleagues, and others. Personal correspondence is primarily of friends he made while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Correspondents include Eve Auchincloss, William F. Buckley, Jr., Virginius Dabney, Jonathan Daniels, John Ehle, Joel L. Fleishman, William Frankel, William C. Friday, Charles Kuralt, Tony Lewis, Willie Morris, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Sam Ragan, John Shelton Reed, James Reston, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Tom Wicker, George Will, Louis Round Wilson, and C. Vann Woodward. Writings include speeches, articles and essays, book manuscripts, book reviews, diaries, journals, columns, and editorials. Most are columns and editorials were written for the Washington Post Writers Group, 1982-1996. Topics include social conditions in the South, judicial power, and 20th-century journalism. There are also writings by others, including reviews of Yoder's books; notes and newspaper clippings in subject files; conference and professional association materials; items from Yoder's teaching career before Washington and Lee University; college materials; biographical and genealogical information; financial and other items relating to the Washington Post Writers Group; personal financial records; drawings by Yoder; photographs of Yoder and others; and videocassettes of television programs in which Yoder appeared. Charlotte News Greensboro Daily News Washington Star

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