Papers of Erskine Caldwell, 1935-1977 and n.d.

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Papers of Erskine Caldwell, 1935-1977 and n.d.

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Five manuscript copies of "The American Version," "Southern Tenant Farmer," "Vengeance of the Earth (All Night Long)," "We Are the Living;" 1970-1979, newspaper and magazine clippings re lectures, plays and books of Erskine Caldwell; and photographs.

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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...