Papers, 1970-1989 [manuscript].

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Papers, 1970-1989 [manuscript].

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The collection contains the uncorrected first draft of "Writing in America"; closing remarks at the International Writer's meeting on peace, 1984; an essay on marriage; copies of three letters by or about Caldwell including his nomination as Commandeur de l'ordre des arts et des lettres; "Various veracious verses" by Caroline Bell Caldwell; a photograph and a sketch. The collection also contains various articles, pamphlets, programs and posters about Caldwell together with a French translation of "Close to home" by Bernard Willerval, "The legacy of Erskine Caldwell" by Stanley W. Lindberg, and an issue of "The southern quarterly" devoted to him.

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Lindberg, Stanley W.

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Caldwell, Caroline

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Willerval, Bernard.

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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...