Atcheson Hench letter to John Cook Wyllie [manuscript], 1948 December 11.

ArchivalResource

Atcheson Hench letter to John Cook Wyllie [manuscript], 1948 December 11.

Hench discusses a small composition class he taught in the twenties and his students Henry Taylor, Erskine Caldwell, Charles Wertenbaker and Lee McCardell, whose work was later published in the University of Virginia magazine.

1 item.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7930895

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w0ktc (person)

Professor of English at the University of Virginia. From the description of Letter of Atcheson Laughlin Hench to Dr. and Mrs. Edward Harper Rynearson [manuscript], 1950 October 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821141 Professor of English at the University of Virginia, 1922-1962. From the description of Oral history interview of Atcheson L. Hench by Ann L.S. Southwell [manuscript], March 15, 1972. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 6...

Taylor, Henry J. (Henry Junior), 1902-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h99bvb (person)

Henry J. Taylor was an economist, journalist, columnist, author, and ambassador. Born in Chicago in 1902, later a resident of Virginia, Henry J. Taylor began his career as a journalist and columnist. His articles describing his world travels during the two decades between the First and Second World Wars were collected in his first book, TIME RUNS OUT (1942). Mr. Taylor's other books included MEN IN MOTION (1943), MEN AND POWER (1946), AN AMERICAN SPEAKS HIS MIND (1957), a novel, THE BIG MAN (196...

Wertenbaker, Charles, 1901-1955

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zc89tt (person)

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t2f58 (person)

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...

Maccardell, Lee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw7sbq (person)