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Hills, L. Rust. Papers, 1954-1996.

Title: Papers, 1954-1996.

Consists of the papers of L. Rust Hills, 1924-, including correspondence with authors concerning articles and short stories submitted to Hills for inclusion in the various magazines for which he worked. Also included are submitted short stories and articles; materials covering his years at Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, and Audience; files concerning symposia or writing programs. The audio tapes are mostly recordings of the symposia.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42833663 View

Lore Segal papers, 1897-2009, 1939-1990

Title: Lore Segal papers 1897-2009 1939-1990

Lore Segal is a New York based novelist and children's book author. A daughter of Austrian Jews, Segal escaped Nazi occupied Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1939. This collection contains letters and documents of her family in Austria and England during World War II, and their emigration to the Dominican Republic and the United States; letters to Segal from throughout her life; letters from Segal as a young girl and documenting her time at Yaddo; and literary manuscripts documenting her novels, children's books, short stories and other writings. Also present are letters and writings of her husband, literary editor David Segal.

ArchivalResource: 14.53 linear feet; 36 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18766 View

Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

Yardley, Jonathan. Jonathan Yardley papers, 1792-2006.

Title: Jonathan Yardley papers, 1792-2006.

The collection consists of subject files, clippings, book production materials, family materials, and other items. Subject files relate to Yardley's career as a book critic, columnist, and author. Included is personal and professional correspondence with authors and others, among them Roger Angell, William Bennett, Doris Betts, Laurie Colwin, Robert Creamer, his agent Liz Darhansoff, Robb Dew, Fred Exley, Lynn Freed, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin, Don Graham, Paul Hemphill, Alfred Knopf, George McGovern, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, James Reston, Anne Tyler, Peter Taylor, Paul Theroux, and Ed Yoder. There is also correspondence regarding the publication of his books, articles, and his appointment on Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award committees and with members of his family. Subject files also include materials relating to books and projects that Yardley never completed, such as biographies of Stephen Crane and H. L. Mencken; materials relating to articles, reviews, and columns published in magazines and newspapers; materials relating to his childhood and school years through college; and materials relating to Yardley's family and heritage, including his father's work at Chatham Hall. Clippings include columns and reviews written by Yardley during his tenure at the Washington Post and other newspapers. Book production materials relate to Ring, Our Kind of People, Out of Step: Notes from a Purple Decade, and States of Mind: A Personal Journey Through the Mid-Atlantic. Family materials include items relating to Yardley's parents, William Woolsey Yardley and Helen Ingersoll Gregory Yardley; family letters; memoirs; genealogical materials relating to the Yardley, Woolsey, Hart, Thorne, Gregory, and Ingersoll families; financial and legal documents; a diary; and carte de visite albums, photograph albums, and other images.

ArchivalResource: About 11800 items (44.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71780592 View

Exley, Frederick. Frederick Exley papers, 1924-1996.

Title: Frederick Exley papers, 1924-1996.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, originals and photocopies, of novels, stories and articles; correspondence with friends, family, publishers and fans; memorabilia, including photographs, a piece of clothing, a typewriter; the research and manuscript materials relating to Jonathan Yardley's biography of Exley, Misfit. The collection emanates in time from after the publication of A Fan's Notes, except for a few yearbooks, scrapbooks, family legal documents and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 14.2 cubic feet (36 boxes, 5 packages, 4 oversize pieces)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713325190 View