![]() In genre an early 19th-century romancer, thematically Dixon argued for three interrelated beliefs still current in southern life: the need for racial purity, the sanctity of the family centered on a traditional wife and mother, and the evil of socialism. ![]() Paradoxically, Dixon is among the most dated and most contemporary of southern writers. Rockefeller, he made and lost millions, ending up an invalid court clerk in Raleigh, N.C. Familiar to three presidents and such notables as John D. Educated at Wake Forest and Johns Hopkins, Dixon was a lawyer, state legislator, preacher, novelist, playwright, actor, lecturer, real-estate speculator, and movie producer. ![]() ![]() Between 19 he published 22 novels, as well as numerous plays, screenplays, books of sermons, and miscellaneous nonfiction. Born in the rural North Carolina Piedmont a year before the Civil War ended, Thomas Dixon lived to see the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the end of World War II. ![]()
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