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Cleo Dawson:An Inventory of her Papers, 1972-1979, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
Biographical SketchCleo Dawson is the well-known author of She Came to the Valley, which was published in 1943. It was later made into a movie. Born in 1902 in Oklahoma City, she moved to Texas and attended school in Mission, Texas, a small town close to McAllen. During her college years, she attended Baylor College, Southern Methodist University (1922), and University of Kentucky. Miss Dawson taught Spanish at the Mission High School. In 1926 she married and moved to Lexington, Kentucky. In addition to writing, she worked as a guest psychologist for a number of years appearing on the Merv Griffith Show. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThis collection contains manuscripts of Cleo Dawson's works. They include two screenplays, nine original manuscripts for four different novels and their revisions and a thesis. Her thesis was on women prisoners in Kentucky (1927). Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsOpen for research Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationCleo Dawson Papers, 1927-1979, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Collection accession #(s):
Purchase, 2000 Processed byAbel Ramirez, 2000 Return to the Table of Contents Collection Inventory
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