Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969.

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Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969.

Re consultation, writing research for a biography on Richard Wright, etc.; and three letters written by Gordon Curtis, l967, two of them to James Abajian re locating Cayton and his correspondence.

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....

Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970

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African American author and sociologist. From the description of Horace Cayton collection, 1965. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965364 Afro-American author. From the description of Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86118280 Horace R. Cayton, Jr. was born in Seattle, WA. on April 12, 1903 to Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (newspaper owner, editor, publisher), and Susie Cayton (j...

Curtis, Gordon

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American poet. From the description of Letters : to Robert Hawley, 1966 June 6-Nov. 14. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18418455 ...