Jonathan Bayliss papers

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Jonathan Bayliss papers

1926-2009

Personal, professional, and family papers of Gloucester (Mass.) author, Jonathan Bayliss.

48.25 linear feet

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11648727

Houghton Library

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Bayliss, Jonathan

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Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) was an American novelist and playwright who lived and wrote in Gloucester, Massachusetts. (source: Bayliss, Jonathan. Jonathan Bayliss papers, 1926-2009 (MS Am 3093): Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard University) He was a close friend of poet Charles Olson after Olson's return to Gloucester in the late 1950s. Bayliss's highly innovative and polymathic novels employ a vast vocabulary, contain mathematical and philosophical puzzles, and avoid pop culture references i...