Authors, American
Subject
Subject Source: Search Fast
Scope Note: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821764
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Jo Bang Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms154
Scope and Contents
The Mary Jo Bang Papers consists largely of her own manuscript materials, including drafts of individual poems, book reviews, essays, introductions and translations, as well as editorial material toward her published and unpublished books. Also included are personal journals, college work, artwork, printed materials and ephemera. A substantial amount of personal and business correspondence is present, primarily with friends, family, editors, students, and...
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Mary Jo Bang Papers
Elizabeth Bishop Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms012
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The collection consists primarily of letters and cards from Elizabeth Bishop to Anne Stevenson providing biographical information to be used in writing Elizabeth Bishopas part of Twayne's United States Authors Series. Bishop also discusses her work and comments on literary figures including Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, and many others. Included with the collection are one typed letter signed from Marianne Moore...
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Elizabeth Bishop Papers
Kay Boyle Collection
Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 8
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf241
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Includes 6-page transcript from Kay Boyle's Senate loyalty hearings during the McCarthy era; manuscript draft of a letter from Boyle to Samuel Beckett (2 sheets); two letters from Kenneth Burke to Boyle (including one with photocopied letter from Mona Van Duyn to Burke on verso); one letter from Evan Connell to Boyle; and one letter from Alexandra Pringle at Virago Press in London to Boyle (with Boyle's manuscript annotations).
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Kay Boyle Collection
Louis Brownlow Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms018
Scope and Contents
Three typescript copies of Brownlow's manuscript, Anatomy of the Anecdote, at various stages of composition and correction.
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Louis Brownlow Papers
Ethan Shaskan Bumas Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms020
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The Ethan Shaskan Bumas papers contains three items of correspondence, five manuscripts, reading announcements and clippings.
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Ethan Shaskan Bumas Papers
William S. Burroughs Collection
Collection — Box VMF 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf234
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A pair of Burroughs’ “automatic drawings” from the cycle of Surrealistic experiments he created in Paris while his 1959 novel Naked Lunch was being prepared for publication. Inspired to try his hand at visual pieces by the artist Brion Gysin—who was assisting Burroughs in the organization of the book, and would later become a long-time collaborator—the drawings arrange loose circular spirals and diagonal scrawls, respectively, in rows and columns over the...
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William S. Burroughs Collection
Tom Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms026
Scope and Contents
The Tom Clark Papers consists of what Clark has termed his “Naropa Archive” - material he gathered together during his two-year investigation of the Naropa Institute including research materials, manuscripts, correspondence, editorial matter and other materials related to this research. Also included in the Clark Papers are correspondence, manuscripts, and editorial matter toward Clark’s other works including Family Pictures, The...
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Tom Clark Papers
Cid Corman Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms030
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence of Cid Corman and Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, with 31 letters written by Corman, and 5 by Wenning [carbon only]. The letters discuss prospective business arrangements for distribution in the United States of Origin Press materials and other books, as well as personal affairs and observations of life in Kyoto, Japan. Arrangements center largely around possible purchase by Wenning and James Lowell of 50 bound volumes of Origin, second...
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Cid Corman Papers
Robert Creeley Papers
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Identifier: MS-MS-ms031
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Series I, Correspondence, 1945-1968, bulking 1963-1968, including letters from Charles Olson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, W.S.Merwin, Witter Bynner, Louis Zukofsky, Henry Rago, Fred Eckman, others and correspondence among Creeley, Walter Hamady and Henry Wenning on publication of The Charm, Words, For Joel, letters from Creeley to Dudley Wynn, University of New Mexico, others, c. 200 items;Series 2, Literary manuscripts, inc. those of The Charm, Divisions & other early poems,...
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Robert Creeley Papers