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Collection Overview
| Size | 2 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
| Abstract | Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet are authors who worked with Edward Riley "Eddie" Boyd to write his autobiography, "A Natural Man." Boyd is a noted African American blues pianist. The collection consists mostly of audiocassette interviews conducted with Eddie Boyd in creating his autobiography, transcriptions of these interviews, and correspondence with Boyd and others in regard to the publication of the autobiography. The collection also includes lyrics and discography prepared by Eddie Boyd, audiocassette recordings of Boyd performing songs, and photocopies of the unpublished autobiography, "A Natural Man," including a 1975 copy edited by Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet and a re-edited copy by Leila Hirvonen, wife of Eddie Boyd. |
| Creator | Eno, Richard D.
Van Fleet, Janet. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
Edward Riley "Eddie" Boyd (November 25, 1914-July 13, 1994) was a blues pianist. Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet are authors who worked with Boyd in composing his autobiography.
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Scope and Content
Audiocassette interviews conducted with Eddie Boyd in creating his autobiography, "A Natural Man," transcriptions of these interviews and other recordings, and correspondence with Boyd and others in regard to the publication of the autobiography. The collection also includes lyrics and discography prepared by Eddie Boyd, audiocassette recordings of Boyd performing songs, and photocopies of the unpublished autobiography, "A Natural Man," including a 1975 copy edited by Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet and a re-edited copy by Leila Hirvonen, wife of Eddie Boyd.
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Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet Collection on Eddie Boyd, circa 1930s-1990s.
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This summary description was created in August 2017 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Laura Smith, August 2017
Updated by: Anne Wells, June 2019
Archival processing of the Richard D. Eno and Janet Van Fleet Collection on Eddie Boyd was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
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