Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-MS-ms067

Staff Only

The Albert and Naomi Lebowitz Papers consists of correspondence from Harold Brodkey, Stanley Elkin, George P. Elliott, William H. Gass, Irving Howe, William L. Hungate, Adrian H. Jaffe, Beverly Jarrett, Jane Lago, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Michael Pinkston, J.F. Powers, Egon Schwarz, Mona Van Duyn, Helen Vendler, and Miller Williams. Also included are materials toward Albert Lebowitz's novels Laban's Will (1966) and The Man Who Wouldn't Say No (1969).

Dates

Creation: 1962-1996

Creator

Lebowitz, Albert, 1922- (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.

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Extent

11.00 boxes

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Albert Lebowitz (June 18, 1922 - September 24, 2016) was a St. Louis attorney and author who attended Washington University in the 1940's. He received his law degree from Harvard University in 1948 and has practiced in St. Louis since then. Albert Lebowitz has written two novels, Laban's Will (1968) and The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1969), as well as a number of short stories. Lebowitz was an editor of Perspective from 1961 until 1975 when the magazine ceased publication.

Naomi Lebowitz (February 6, 1932 - ) is an emeritus professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. An incomplete list of Dr. Lebowitz's works includes Humanism and the Absurd in the Modern Novel (1971); Italo Svevo (1978); Kierkegaard: A Life of Allegory (1985); Dickens, Manzoni, Zola and James: The Impossible Romance (1990); Ibsen and the Great World (1990); and The Philosophy of Literary Amateurism (1994).