Patsy Dickey papers, circa 1940-2007.

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Patsy Dickey papers, circa 1940-2007.

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The collection consists of the papers of Patsy Dickey from circa 1940 to 2007, including correspondence, drawings, photographs, printed material, and writings. The Dickey family correspondence includes letters between James Dickey and Patsy, in addition to letters from Maxine Dickey, and Christopher Dickey to his cousins. The family correspondence provides extensive documentation of James Dickey's trip to England with his young family in 1962. Patsy Dickey's personal correspondence includes letters from many notable southern writers, including Virginia Spencer Carr, Pat Conroy, and Anne Rivers Siddons, among others. Photographs include images of James Dickey by himself as well as with Patsy and others, including his daughter, Bronwen. The printed material consists of two articles by Patsy Dickey, articles by James Dickey, and other collected material. The majority of the printed material consists of articles and clippings about James Dickey collected by Patsy Dickey. Writings include drafts of essays, published and unpublished, by Patsy Dickey, primarily about her brother-in-law.

.75 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7110919

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Carr, Virginia Spencer

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Scholar and a professor of American literature at Georgia State University. Her first book was The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers. From the description of Virginia Spencer Carr papers, 1867-2009. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19464922 Virginia Spencer Carr (1929- ), English professor and author of biographies of Carson McCullers (1975) and Dos Passos (1984). Her other books include UNDERSTANDING CARSON MCCULLERS, KATHERINE ANNE PORTER'S FLOWE...

Conroy, Patricia

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Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a young career military officer from Chicago and a Southern beauty from Alabama, whom Pat often credits for his love of language. He was the first of seven children. His father was a violent and abusive man, a man whose biggest mistake, Conroy once said, was allowing a novelist to grow up in his home. Since his family had to move many times to different military bases around the South, Conroy changed schools frequently, finally att...

Dickey, James Ronald, 1934-

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American poet; b. 1923. From the description of Papers, 1954-1970. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 26089516 Poet and author. Born 1923. From the description of May Day sermon to the women of Gilmer County, Georgia ... : corrected typescript, circa 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132470 James Dickey, (1923-1997), American poet and novelist. From the description of James Dickey papers, circa 1924-1997 (bulk 1961...

Siddons, Anne Rivers

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Born in 1936, Siddons was raised in Fairburn, Georgia. Aftr graduating from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, in 1958, she took a staff position with "Atlanta" magazine. She signed a book contract with Doubleday and her first book, "John Chancellor Makes Me Cry," was published in 1975. She has since published eleven novels with contemporary Southern settings and a guidebook to Atlanta. From the description of Papers, 1976-1993. (Auburn University). WorldCat record...

Dickey, Patsy

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Patsy (Hamilton) Dickey was born in North Carolina in 1926. After graduating from Indiana University with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Art Literature, she married Thomas Dickey, brother of writer James Dickey, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Patsy and Thomas had two children, a son Thomas Jr., and daughter, Dorian. While maintaining various administrative positions in businesses and universities, Patsy Dickey has written short stories, poems, essays and a novel, Bellcat and Pigboy (2006). He...