Jesse Hill Ford letter to Mr. Johnstone, 1969 April 7.

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Jesse Hill Ford letter to Mr. Johnstone, 1969 April 7.

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Jesse Hill Ford writes to Mr. Johnstone, 7 April 1969, a typwritten, signed letter, responding to Johnstone's offer on behalf of The Institute [for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Pennsylvania State University], describing himself as a "writer, pure and simple," and mentioning his schedule, which includes completing a film version of his The Liberation of Lord Byron James, and returning to Tennessee to complete a novel. On Columbia Pictures letterhead.

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Ford, Jesse Hill

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Jesse Hill Ford was an American writer, perhaps best known for his novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones. Born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee, he was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida, taking time off to serve in the Korean War. Devoting himself to writing, he gained attention for his short stories and wrote several well-received novels; his realistic style and Southern settings evoked William Faulkner. His fiction elicited racial tension, and he and his fami...

Johnstone, Henry W.

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Johnstone earned his Harvard AM in 1947 and his PhD in 1950. From the description of Mutual primeness and degrees of dependence of finite codes / Henry Johnstone, Jr. January 15, 1948. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512686 ...