Lore Segal papers 1897-2009 1939-1990

Yaddo (Artists' colony)

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Yaddo is an artists' retreat located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo first began welcoming creative guests in 1926, but its roots extend back to the final decades of the 19th century. After the loss of their fourth child, Spencer and Katrina Trask decided to bequeath their baronial mansion and its surrounding grounds to future generations of creative men and women. Yaddo's guest list has included Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capot...

Frisch, Max, 1911-1991

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Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment.[1] The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1986....

Segal, Lore Groszmann

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Lore Groszmann Segal was born March 3, 1928, in Vienna, Austria. She lived through the Nazi occupation of Austria, and eventually ended up in England with her family. Following World War II she went with her family to the Dominican Republic, and eventually to the United States. She first began writing during the 1950s. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vols. 4, 66; Something About the Author Autobiography Series, vol. 11 From the guide to the Lore Groszmann Segal Pape...

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...

Gay, Ruth

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Ruth Gay, née Slotkin was born in New York in 1922. She graduated from Queens College in 1943 and received a library degree from Columbia University in 1969. From 1948 to 1950 she was the editor of the JDC Review of the American Joint Distribution Committee. She has published several nonfiction books documenting Jewish life in Europe and America and received the National Jewish Book Award in 1997 for her book Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter...

Exley, Frederick

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Brown, Rosellen

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Mosler, Peter, 1944-....

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Scott, Pippa, 1935-

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Elliott, George P., 1918-1980

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American novelist and college professor; d. 1980. From the description of Papers, 1957-1979. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419442 American author. From the description of Papers. 1957-1979. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905669 ...

Burland, Brian

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Bermudian author; b. Brian Berkeley Burland, 1931; lives in Connecticut. From the description of Brian Burland collection, [196-]-[198-]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70971720 ...

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Zelinsky, Paul O.

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Paul O. Zelinksy was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1953. He received his B.A. from Yale University and a M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art. He is an artist, author, and illustrator of books for children and has won numerous awards for his work including the Caldecott Medal for Rapunzel in 1998. His work is noted for its richness and experimental nature and its wide variety. He has illustrated everything from Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw to the pop-up book, The Wheels on the Bus.Biographic...

Gass, William H., 1924-

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American essayist and novelist William H. Gass was a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, when he wrote this letter. In 1979 Gass was named David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, from which he is now emeritus. He was also the Director of International Writers Center from 1990 to 2000. Born July 30, 1924, in Fargo, North Dakota, William Gass is a ...

Sendak, Maurice

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Maurice Sendak was born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. He began his art career as a cartoonist and display artist, and in the 1940s he started to illustrate children's books. Sendak illustrated many well-known author's books in the early years of his career, including Meindart De Jong, Ruth Krause, Charlotte Zolotow, and Janice Udry; he also illustrated Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear series. In the 1950s he began to write children's picture books. Throughout his long career he has c...

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

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Lucy S. Dawidowicz was born June 16, 1915 in New York City, to Max and Dora (Ofnaem) Schildkret. Her parents were secular Jews who were not affiliated with a synagogue. In fact, the first time that Lucy S. Dawidowicz went to a Jewish service was in 1938 in Vilna. Dawidowicz attended Hunter College and received her B.A. in 1936. She continued her studies as a Masters student in English Literature at Columbia University. Although she enjoyed poetry and literature, the events taking pl...

Gay, Peter, 1923-....

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Historian. Gay was Professor of History at Columbia University, 1962-1968. From the description of Peter Gay papers, [ca. 1954]-1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 265033263 ...

Van Duyn, Mona

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American author. From the description of Papers. 1942-1985. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12925295 American poet, editor, and teacher of writing at Washington University; b. 1921; married Jarvis Thurston. From the description of Papers, 1942-1985. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28421417 ...

Brodkey, Harold

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