Erskine Caldwell letters, 1952-1960.

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Erskine Caldwell letters, 1952-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432663619

The collection consists of 10 typed letters and 1 handwritten letter, all signed, from Erskine Caldwell to his editors. The letters are from 1952-1960, and all of them concern Erskine's writing.

11 items (0.1 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7520316

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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...