Folder 69
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National Book Award Material
File — Folder: 69
Identifier: Folder 69
Scope and Contents
Consists of material for National Book Award including press kit with press releases, acceptance remarks from winners, and NBA photographs of Van Duyn, Lloyd Alexander, Saul Bellow, Francis Steegmuller and others. Also included are Van Duyn's drafts of her acceptance speech, which contains her poem Open Letter from a Constant Reader, notes made by Van Duyn, letter to Allen Ginsberg (who had protested Van Duyn's selection for the award) and poems by Richard Howard and Ralph Nash, written for...