Erskine Caldwell letters, 1929-1973 [manuscript].

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Erskine Caldwell letters, 1929-1973 [manuscript].

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Letters, 1929-1931, from Erskine Caldwell (1903- ), to Richard Johns (1904-1970), editor of "Pagany," about material submitted by Caldwell to the magazine, the craft of writing, other material in "Pagany," other magazines and writers, and Caldwell's own work and publishing plans. There are a few family letters, 1943, to Margaret Bourke-White, from whom Caldwell had just been divorced; clippings about Caldwell; a typescript of a chapter from a biography of Caldwell dealing with his marriage to Helen Caldwell Cushman; and other items.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Johns, Richard, 1904-1970

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Pagany: a native quarterly was a quarterly magazine founded and edited by Richard Johns to display and promote the writings of native- born Americans, including expatriates. From the description of Pagany archive, 1925-1970 (bulk 1929-1933). (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 575234488 Pagany: a native quarterly was a quarterly magazine founded and edited by Richard Johns to display and promote the writings of native- born Americans, including...

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous award...

Cushman, Helen Caldwell.

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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...