Finding Aid for the Sylvia Wilkinson Manuscripts, 1966-1968
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Sylvia Wilkinson (1940- ) is an alumna of Woman's College (now UNCG) and an award-winning author. This collection contains editor's notes, a book review, and manuscripts of Wilkinson's books, Moss on the North Side and A Killing Frost.
MSS 032
0.5 linear ft., 1 archival box
Collection is open for research.
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
[Identification of item], Sylvia Wilkinson Manuscripts (MSS 032), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gift of the author, December 1968.
Sylvia Wilkinson was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1940. She graduated from Woman's College (now UNCG) in 1962, received her master's degree from Hollins College and also studied at Stanford University. Wilkinson taught at various institutions and received a number of literary awards including the Sir Walter Raleigh Award twice -- in 1968 for A Killing Frost, and again in 1978 for Shadow of the Mountain.
This collection contains editor's notes, a book review, and manuscripts of Wilkinson's books, Moss on the North Side and A Killing Frost.
Folder 1 Editor's working notes for the novel, Moss on the North Side (Houghton Mifflin, 1966) and Wilkinson's review of Gone a Hundred Miles by Heather Ross Miller, January 1968.
Folders 2-3 Moss on the North Side -1964 revision, mimeograph copy
Folders 4-5 Moss on the North Side -1965 revision, carbon typescripts
Folders 6-8 A Killing Frost (Houghton Mifflin, 1967) - carbon typescripts
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