Victor Dalmas papers, 1974-2002 [manuscript].

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Victor Dalmas papers, 1974-2002 [manuscript].

Correspondence relating to draft manuscripts and edited copy for issues of "Pembroke Magazine" during Dalmas's tenure as editor, 1974-1979, among which are issues on Paul Green and Erskine Caldwell. Also included are letters to and from various writers, especially from North Carolina, and materials relating to books edited and published by Dalmas through Dalmas/Ricour, Publishers.

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Dalmas, Victor

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Victor Dalmas was born in Kentucky and moved to Fayetteville, N.C., in 1954. He served in the Army in Korea and Vietnam, retiring in 1968. He received a degree in political science from the University of Maryland and studied English at Pembroke State University and North Carolina State University, 1974-1979. Dalmas served as associate editor of the literary quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, published at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He was also a freelance writer and publisher. Dalma...

Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Paul Eliot Green(1894-1981) was a Southern playwright, poet, and novelist. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Green lived in the state all of his life and tried to capture in his writings the culture and heritage of the American South, concentrating on the experiences of tenant farmers, mill workers, Native Americans and African Americans. Green studied at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under folk dramatist Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers. After an interruption of his ...

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...