Collection, 1929-1959.

ArchivalResource

Collection, 1929-1959.

Papers collected by Woodbridge for a proposed biographical/bibliographical dictionary of Ky. authors. The bulk of the papers consist of letters from authors giving details of their lives and work. Also included are newspaper clippings containing information on various authors. Authors include Richard A. Briggs, Billy Curtis Clark, Janice Holt Giles, James A. Jewell, Robbie Trent, Lowell A. Williams, and others.

0.33 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7608484

The Filson Historical Society

Related Entities

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Clark, Billy C. (Billy Curtis)

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American author; writer in residence at Longwood College; b. 1928. From the description of Billy C. Clark collection, 1952-1989. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70960150 ...

Trent, Robbie, 1894-1988

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Jewell, James W., b. 1889.

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Briggs, Richard A. (Richard Arthur), 1926-

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Woodbridge, Hensley Charles, 1923-....

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Collector and researcher. From the description of Collection, 1929-1959. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49479476 ...

Giles, Janice Holt 1909-1979

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The novelist Janice Holt Giles was born March 28, 1905, in Altus, Arkansas, and grew up in both Arkansas and Oklahoma. She attended the University of Arkansas and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1941, she moved to Kentucky, working in Frankfort and Louisville. She later met and married native Kentuckian, Henry Giles, and settled on a farm near his boyhood home in Adair County. Her first novel, THE ENDURING HILLS, was published in 1950, after which she became a full-time writer...

Williams, Lowell Allen.

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