Erskine Caldwell papers, 1932-1941.

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Erskine Caldwell papers, 1932-1941.

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Correspondence (1932-1934), chiefly letters of Caldwell to I.L. Salomon, and printer's typescripts and proof sheets of "Say, Is This the U.S.A." (1941), a photo-journalistic travel book by Caldwell and his wife, Margaret Bourke-White.

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Salomon, Isidore Lawrence, 1899-1985

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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...

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous award...