![]() ![]() This is a machine rebuilt from two other old L. ![]() Smith typewriter, for sentimental reasons. The first few pages (beginning with the scene where Ira Claffey walks through the woods away from his plantation) were written on my old L. ![]() I started writing the novel on December 16, 1953, and finished it on May 25, 1955. This discussion of the writing of Andersonville should serve as an adequate explanatory outline for full understanding of the manuscript- its appearance and condition. Kantor subsequently prepared the following account of the writing of Andersonville, which is published here with the permission of the author’s son, Tim Kantor. At the request of the library director Mr. The “manuscript” of this Civil War novel, which concerns the notorious Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers in southern Georgia, consists of a series of author’s notes, several successive drafts or revisions, a final manuscript, and proof pages as well as an international file of press clippings. Nearly thirty years ago The University of Iowa Libraries received, as a gift from Iowa author MacKinlay Kantor, the original manuscript of Kantor’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel Andersonville. ![]()
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