Papers, 1973-1996.

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Papers, 1973-1996.

Papers relating to his study of the life and career of Erskine Caldwell which was published in 1993. Includes research notes, tapes of interviews with Caldwell and others, notes on the tapes, correspondence with Caldwell, members of the Caldwell family, and friends and colleagues, and a draft of the original manuscript of the biography, Erskine Caldwell: a biography (Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1993).

4.5 ft. (7 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7395685

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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...

Klevar, Harvey L., 1934-....

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