Jan Gabrial papers 1932-1940

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Jan Gabrial papers 1932-1940

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6096

Janine Lowry Singer (1911-2001), whose pen name was Jan Gabrial, was the first wife of British author Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957). An aspiring writer herself, her papers include correspondence, journals, manuscripts, photographic negatives, and typescripts of Malcolm Lowry's unpublished novel, "In Ballast to the White Sea."

1.3 linear feet; 4 boxes

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313957

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957

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Lowry, (Clarence) Malcolm was a novelist born in New Brighton, England. He spent time at sea before studying at Cambridge. His most recognized novel is Under the Volcano (1947), set in Mexico where he resided 1936-37. Other works include Ultramarine (1933), based on his early sea travel, and the posthumous Dark is the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (1968). Most of his productive years he lived in British Columbia. From 1954 to his death he resided in England. From the description of...

Gabrial, Jan.

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Janine Lowry Singer (1911-2001), who used the pen name Jan Gabrial, was a writer and the first wife of British author Malcolm Lowry. She was born Janine Vanderheim and grew up in Bayside, Long Island, NY. She disappointed her mother, Emily F. Vanderheim, when she refused to attend Radcliffe College and, instead, chose a career in acting and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. In the summer of 1927, she lived in upstate New York where she acted in summer st...