Kathryn Tucker Windham Manuscript, Common Threads
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1820
Scope and Contents
This manuscript represents Kathryn Tucker Windham’s contribution to the book, Common Threads. The book, published in 2000, includes photographs by Chip Cooper along with Windham’s manuscript.
Dates
- 2000
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Kathryn Tucker Windham is an author and storyteller born in Selma, Alabama in 1918. She was trained as a journalist and worked for several news agencies in Alabama. In 1964, Windham began to publish and has since won numerous awards for her nonfiction and journalism. Her 1969 work, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, brought her popularity and was the first of several books she has written about ghosts. Her long career has also included a run as an essayist on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
Sources: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Windham, Kathryn Tucker. Twice blessed. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1996.
Sources: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Windham, Kathryn Tucker. Twice blessed. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1996.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 item)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Alabama author’s manuscript for the book, Common Threads.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Kathryn Tucker Windham, 2006
Processing Information
Processed by John McIlwain, 2007
- Title
- Guide to Kathryn Tucker Windham Manuscript, Common Threads
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by John McIlwain, 2007
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository