Erskine Caldwell papers, circa 1965.

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Erskine Caldwell papers, circa 1965.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/340952506

The collection consists of photographs, a copy of the page proof of In search of Bisco (1965), clippings, and correspondence.

1.5 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7353482

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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...