Newsclippings about Erskine Caldwell, 1991-1997.

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Newsclippings about Erskine Caldwell, 1991-1997.

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Additional material for the Erskine Caldwell collection consists of newsclippings about Caldwell, biographies of him by Harvey Klevar and Dan B. Miller, a brief reminiscence by Harry Crews, his autobiography, and the efforts to preserve his Georgia birthplace.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7643203

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...

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012

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Harry Crews is a prolific novelist whose often freakish characters populate a strange, violent, and darkly humorous South. He is also the author of a widely lauded memoir, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, about growing up poor in rural south Georgia. Crews has focused much of his work on the poor white South, influencing a growing number of younger writers to do the same, including Larry Brown and Tim McLaurin. Harry Eugene Crews was born in Bacon County on June 7, 1935, the second of two ...

Miller, Dan B.

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Klevar, Harvey L., 1934-....

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