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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Nowell and Vardis Fisher Correspondence on Thomas Wolfe and Other Topics (#70006), North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Note: Collection number changed from #CW2.1 to #70006 in April 2020.]

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Processed by: Frances A. Weaver, A. Hope Shull, Nicholas Graham, 1998

Encoded by: Benjamin Bromley, September 2009

Finding aid updated by Dawne Howard Lucas in April 2020 to change the collection number from CW2.1 to 70006.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
• Authors, American -- 20th century.
• Authors, American -- North Carolina -- 20th century.
• Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968.
• Literary agents -- United States.
• Nowell, Elizabeth.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Appreciation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Biography.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Friends and associates.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

Elizabeth Nowell was the literary agent and the first biographer of Thomas Wolfe. She also collected and published The Letters of Thomas Wolfe (1956).

Vardis Fisher was an American author in Idaho in 1895. He was the director of the Idaho Guide Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration, during the Great Depression. His writings include the twelve-volume series The Testament of Man.

The collections contains correspondence between Elizabeth Nowell and Vardis Fisher relating to Fisher's essay "Thomas Wolfe As I Knew Him," as well as to Fisher's conflicts with editors and publishing companies and to his attempts to get royalty money owed to him from foreign editions of his works.