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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Peirson Ricks Papers, #3989, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David Ricks of Winston-Salem, N.C., February 1974

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Authors and publishers--United States--History--20th century.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Chambrun, Jacques.
• Family--United States--Social life and customs.
• Literary agents--United States--History--20th century.
• Mitchell, Boroughs.
• Novelists, American--20th century.
• Ricks, Peirson, 1908-1950.
• Ricks, Peirson, 1908-1950. Hunter's horn.

Pierson Ricks (1908-1950) was an author, advertising agent, and native of Winston-Salem, N.C. Ricks was the oldest of the four children of David Absalom Ricks and Jessie Pierson Whitaker Ricks. He graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina, worked at Hanes Knitting Company and at advertising agencies in Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y., and Winston-Salem. He also wrote for the Winston-Salem Journal and worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., during World War II. As an author, Ricks wrote about 50 stories and novelettes, of which 20 were published. A novel, The Hunter's Horn, was published by Scribners' in 1947.

The collection includes the correspondence, writings, memoranda, clippings, drawings, and photographs of Pierson Ricks. Approximately half the collection consists of correspondence, 1925 and 1940-1950, between Ricks and his relatives, literary agent Jacques Chambrun, and publishers. Included is correspondence with Burroughs Mitchell of Scribners' relating to the publication of Ricks's novel, The Hunter's Horn, in 1945. The remainder of the collection consists of typed drafts of short stories and novelettes by Ricks, memoranda, clippings, drawings, and photographs.

Photographs (PF-3989/1-2).