Erskine Caldwell typescript, 1940.

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Erskine Caldwell typescript, 1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422106081

The collection consists of a typescript of a six page short story entitled, "Crown-Fire" written by Caldwell in 1940 for a collection of short stories called Jackpot.

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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...