Papers on Erskine Caldwell, 1976-1989.

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Papers on Erskine Caldwell, 1976-1989.

Correspondence about and from Erskine Caldwell and materials used in preparing his essay on Caldwell at Dartmouth College which was published in 1989. Includes typescript of the essay.

25 items ; 16-28 cm.

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Dartmouth College. Library. Special Collections

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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...

Terrie, Henry L.

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