Michael Dale Speer Collection of Erskine Caldwell.

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Michael Dale Speer Collection of Erskine Caldwell.

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The Michael Dale Speer Collection of Erskine Caldwell consist of 2 boxes of typescript drafts of interviews, and material intended for a biography of Caldwell. Included with the typescripts is a copy of Caldwell's Georgia Boy, which was been mounted on note sheets and has been annotated.

2 document boxes.

The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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Speer, Michael Dale.

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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...