Letters to Gordon Lewis, chiefly from Erskine Caldwell, 1929-1963 and n.d.

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Letters to Gordon Lewis, chiefly from Erskine Caldwell, 1929-1963 and n.d.

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Letters from Erskine Caldwell, 1932-1963, discusses his writing, financial difficulties, screenwriting, and travel plans, with occasional references to his personal life. He also gives Lewis publication advice. The collection also contains a letter, 1929, from authors Mary Paula O'Donnell and Pat [O'Donnell?] about current activities. People mentioned include Maxim Lieber, George Oppenheimer, John Saxton Sumner, and C.C. [Wells?].

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Lewis, Gordon R. (Gordon Russell), 1926-

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Lieber, Maxim.

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Wells, Clyde, 1934-

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O'Donnell, Mary King, 1909-

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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...

Oppenheimer, George

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George Oppenheimer, drama critic was born in New York City on February 7, 1900. He was co-founder of the Viking Press, a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a playwright, author and editor. He wrote the play HERE TODAY (1932) and collaborated on numerous films, among them, DAY AT THE RACES, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940, TWO-FACED WOMAN, and THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY, for which he received an Oscar nomination. He also wrote bookson theater including THE VIEW FROM THE SIXTI...

Sumner, John Saxton, 1876- .

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