Autobiography, 1983.

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Autobiography, 1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51747224

The collection contains two manuscript drafts and a typed manuscript (electrostatic copy) of Erskine Caldwell's autobiography for "Contemporary Authors Autobiography."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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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...