Letters to JamesKorges 1926-1975

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Letters to JamesKorges 1926-1975

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The collection consistsof letters written to James Korges in his capacity as editor of bysuch literary figures as Erskine Caldwell, Dickey, Caroline Gordon, WilliamGoyen, Frederick Manfred, Brian Moore, Anais Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey,Tate, and Yvor Winters. Also included are a 1926 Theodore Dreiser letter and aletter written in 1953 by Sean O'Casey to Korges, then a senior at RiceUniversity and editor of the student newspaper, . Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction The Thresher

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Dickey, James

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Winters, Yvor

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Goyen, William

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Dreiser, Theodore

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Ramsey, Paul

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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-....

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As the winner of the National Book Award for her 1970 novel Them and the recipient of four O. Henry awards and numerous other literary prizes, Joyce Carol Oates is among the most distinguished writers in the United States. In her considerable body of work, she has created an array of male and female protagonists from a diversity of regional, economic, and occupational backgrounds. In the four decades since her first book, the short-story collection By the North Gate, appeared to critical acclaim...

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O'Casey, Sean

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Nin, Anais

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Gordon, Caroline

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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...

Moore, Marianne

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Tate, Allen

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