Miscellaneous Erskine Caldwell items, 1930-1987, n.d.

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Miscellaneous Erskine Caldwell items, 1930-1987, n.d.

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Additional material for the Erskine Caldwell collection consists of newsclippings about Caldwell, a copy of a letter to his parents, 1930, mentioning his application for a Guggenheim and his ambition to win the Pulitzer Prize; a copy of the1983 certificate naming Caldwell a Commadeur de l'ordre des arts at des lettres; and a flier announcing the sale of Caldwell's home.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7914451

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...