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University of North Carolina at Asheville
D. Hiden Ramsey Library
Special Collections
Seth Gilkerson
(b. 1907 - 198?)
Southern Appalachian Writers Collection
M2005.05.02-08
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| Title |
Seth Gilkerson |
| Creator |
Southern Highlands Research
Center |
| Alt. Creator |
D. H. Ramsey Library |
| Identifier |
http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/southern_appalachian_writers/gilkerson_seth/gilkerson_seth.htm |
| Subject Keyword |
Seth Gilkerson ; Southern Appalachian Writers ; Appalachia |
| Subject LCSH |
Gilkerson, Seth, 1907 - 198?
American
literature -- Appalachian
Region, Southern
American
literature -- Appalachian
Mountains
Appalachians (People) in
literature
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Description and travel |
| Description |
The collection contains letters of correspondence, ephemera, a photograph,
book jackets, an audio recording, and anecdotal information on the writer. These
materials were gathered as part of an exhibition of Southern
Appalachian Writers held at UNCA in the early 1980's and sponsored by
D. H. Ramsey Library and the Southern Highlands Research Center. |
| Publisher |
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special
Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor |
Annette Hatley |
| Date |
2005-08-23 |
| Type |
Collection ; text ;
photograph ; audio recording |
| Format |
1 folder ; text ;
image |
| Source |
M2005.05.02-8 |
| Language |
English |
| Relation |
The
Heritage of Western North Carolina, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of
North Carolina at Asheville |
| Coverage |
1900's - present ;
North Carolina ; |
| Rights |
Any display,
publication, or public use must credit the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special
Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Some
materials in collections are electronic rights only. Please ask for
assistance from Special Collections staff. |
| Donor |
240 |
| Acquisition |
2004-03- |
| Citation |
Seth Gilkerson in Southern Appalachian Writers
Collection,
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina
at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by |
Special Collections staff,
2005 |
| Last update |
2008-09-15 |
| Statement on writing |
"The urge to write is
a gravity of the mind. It pulls at you until you make some sense
of your thoughts, and then try to put them on paper in logical and
sensible combinations. Sometimes the process begins in frustration
and ends in ecstasy. Other times it begins in ecstasy and rapidly
tumbles into despair. for me this gravity is as essential for
writing as the gravity which brings the rains." |
| Biography |
Seth Gilkerson was
born in 1907 in West Virginia. By the time he began writing
fiction, he was well into his retirement and had had enough jobs to fill
several lifetimes. Gilkerson had been a farmer, coal miner,
country school teacher, captain in the Army, college professor, clinical
microbiologist, and a researcher in the fields of tuberculosis and lung
cancer immunodiagnosis. The last of this work took Gilkerson to
Asheville, North Carolina, where he published several papers on his
research. Judging from his professional past, t is no surprise
that the subjects of his short fiction vary widely. His first
collection featured a story of the 1918 flu epidemic alongside a piece
on survivors from a nuclear holocaust alongside an occult detective
story, and so on. |
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Bibliography |
BOOKS BY |
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1979 |
Fingerprints and
Other Stories. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1979. |
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1982 |
Wait For Me and
Other Stories. Aurora, CO: National Writers Press, 1982. |
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1986 |
That Bastard War.
Great Neck, NY: Todd & Honeywell, 1986. |
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