Asheville, Aug. 22—Thomas Dixon, famous novelist and playwright, has purchased 700 acres of land near Little Switzerland, 18 miles north of Marion, for the purpose of erecting a studio according to information received here tonight. Work on construction of the studio will begin at once, it is stated.
From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, August 25, 1925. According to Duke University Libraries, Archives & Manuscripts, “Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864-1946) was a white supremacist, novelist, playwright, and clergyman, originally from North Carolina. Dixon authored The Leopard's Spots (1902) and The Clansman (1905), which later was adapted into D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation (1915).” Duke has The Thomas Dixon Jr. papers. For more information on this collection, go to arhives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/dixonthomas. This collection contains literary drafts of his plays and novels, some correspondence, and other legal materials and photographs. The brief article in this blog is from the Concord Daily Tribune and is online at:
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1925-08-25/ed-1/seq-6/
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