Erskine Caldwell clippings and photographs [manuscript]

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Erskine Caldwell clippings and photographs [manuscript]

The collection includes a copy of a photograph of Erskine and Virginia Caldwell in Rome in 1959 and clippings about Caldwell and his work.

circa 25 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7388973

University of Virginia. Library

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Caldwell, Virginia

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American painter and wife of author Erskine Caldwell. From the description of Letter, card and photograph for Cornelia and Waller Barrett [manuscript], 1984 August 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810919 ...

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...