Richard Harwell collection, 197u-1980.

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Richard Harwell collection, 197u-1980.

The collection consists of miscellaneous correspondence between Richard Harwell and the Caldwells, among others, as well as various clippings.

0.5 linear feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 7519485

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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...

Caldwell family

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Harwell, Richard Barksdale

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Richard Barksdale Harwell, librarian, bibliographer, and author, was born June 6, 1915, in Washington, Georgia, and died March 9, 1988, in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University (English, 1937; Library Science, 1938) and received an honorary doctorate from New England College (1966). Harwell worked in libraries at Duke University (1938-1940), Emory University (assistant director, 1940-1943; Special Collections Department head, 1946-1948; assistant librarian, 1948-1955), Virginia St...