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Nine Shots in the Dark

1951
AZ 193
Collection Guide
First Page of "Nine Shots in the Dark" draft

The collection contains typescript chapters of the story Nine Shots in the Dark, proposed by bookseller Eugene Steinheimer and written in relay by Erskine Caldwell, Rosemary Taylor, Leslie Ernenwein, Joseph Wood Krutch, Roy Chapman Andrews, Ruth Suckow, Nelson C. Nye, Ann Ritner, and Elliot Arnold. Published serially in the Arizona Daily Star, March 28 to April 5, 1951, as a promotion for the first annual Tucson Festival of the Arts.

Included materials:
Manuscript
Subject Area:
Literature
Collection Area:
Arizona & Southwest

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