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Carlyle Tillery book typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1408

Scope and Contents note

The collection contains the galley proofs of Tillery's novel Red Bone Woman, published by the New York firm of J. Day in 1950.

Dates

  • 1950

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

None

Conditions Governing Use

None

Biographical / Historical

Carlyle Tillery was born 6 December 1904, in Greensburg, Louisiana. He was a graduate of Mississippi State College, where he earn a B.S. degree. In the years before World War II, he was a statistical clerk in agricultural economics and agronomy. He also spent two years on a banana plantation in Central America. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II. After 1945, he moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he was a clerk in the local Jitney Jungle supermarket.

After moving to Tuscaloosa, Tillery studied creative writing under Hudson Strode. It was during this time that Tillery's novel, Red Bone Woman, was published. He is described in an article in the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News (10 July 1949), as "a kindly, quiet man, fortyish,with rather sparse red hair, a freckled face, and glasses that hit a little farther down his nose than usual. On week days he ambles busily but unobtrusively up and down the aisles of Jitney Jungle Super Market No. 1 where he is employed in the stock room."

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet (2 inches)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Galley proofs of Tillery's novel Red Bone Woman, published by the New York firm of J. Day in 1950.

Provenance

Gift of Carlyle Tillery, 1997

Processed by

unknown
Title
Guide to the Carlyle Tillery book transcript
Status
Completed
Date
2000
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0266
205.348.0513