George Marion O'Donnell Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms091

Staff Only

The George Marion O'Donnell Papers includes occasional manuscripts and correspondence either to or from Rae Beamish, Richard Croom Beatty, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, Nelson Del Bittner, Harry Brown, Basil Bunting, Truman Capote, Hubert Creekmore, Robert Woodham Daniel, Donald Davidson, Edward Donahoe, Charles Henri Ford, Theodore C. Hoepfner, Merle Hoyleman, Robert Hillyer, William Inge, Marian Ives, James Laughlin, Leroy Leatherman, R.W.B. Lewis, Jim Lord, Willard Maas, Edward McGehee, Theodore Morrison, Samuel French Morse, W.R. Moses, Gorham Munson, Flannery O'Connor, John Newton Oldham, William Alexander Percy, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Kerker Quinn, John Crowe Ransom, Garret Ratcliff, Delmore Schwartz, Roysce Smith, Mark Strand, Allen Tate (and Caroline Gordon), Nedra Tyre, Eudora Welty, Jonathon Williams, Stark Young, Joseph Horrell and Louis Zukofsky. Correspondence with publishers, editors, teaching colleagues, former students, and friends are also included.

Dates

1932-1961

Creator

O'Donnell, George Marion, 1914-1962 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.

Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.

If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.).

Extent

9.00 boxes

Additional Description

Biographical Information

George Marion O'Donnell (January 21, 1914-1962) was an American writer. Born in Mississippi, O’Donnell attended Belzoni High School (1928-1932), Memphis State College (1932-1934), Vanderbilt University (B.A., 1936, M.A., 1939). He taught at Vanderbilt (1939-1940), Alabama Polytechnic Institute (1941-1945), Harvard (1945-1947), Louisiana State University (1947-1949), and Oglethorpe University (1949-1957). During his career, O'Donnell's literary criticism, reviews, short stories, and poetry appeared in over thirty scholarly journals, popular and literary magazines, and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, A Southern Vanguard, and the Agrarian symposium Who Owns America?. He was particularly noted for his essays on William Faulkner and for his poetry.