Patricia Beck Papers 1936-1986 1940-78

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Patricia Beck Papers 1936-1986 1940-78

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Author, poet. Papers include Beck's personal diaries, kept continuously from age 14 until her death in 1978; manuscripts of 59 short stories, 2 semi-autobiographical novels, and poems; correspondence; and photographs and slides of artwork. The diaries, used as basis for her writings, contain insight into her relationships, daily activities, books and movies, her dreams, travel descriptions (including time spent in Civil War Spain), and periodic depressive episodes (which led to brief hospitalizations and her eventual suicide). Manuscripts include criticisms by Bernard Malamud and Theodore Roethke. Notable orrespondents include Frank Capra, Erich and Henny Fromm, Dorothy and Granville Hicks, Bernard and Ann Malamud, Karl Polanyi, and Allan and Barbara Seager.

24 boxes; (9.5 linear ft.)

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Sophia Smith Collection

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Beck, Patricia, 1924-1978

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Author, Poet. Patricia (Pat) Beck was born in New York City, 1924. Her family lived in Europe in the 1930's, then in New York and New Jersey. She attended Bennington College (VT), 1943-46, where her advisor was poet Theodore Roethke, and she studied writing under W.H. Auden and Allan Seager, as well as art and psychology. After her mother's death in 1946 she suffered from severe depression and spent a short time in a psychiatric unit where she underwent shock therapy. Beck continued to suffer fr...

Fromm, Erich, 1900-

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Hicks, Granville, 1901-....

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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963

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Educator, poet. From the description of Correspondence, with University of Michigan officials, 1962. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34370061 Theodore Roethke won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his volume of verse "The Waking." He was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1908 and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1929. He taught at Lafayette University, Penn State, Bennington College and finally at the University of Washington. His books include "...

Malamud, Bernard

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Biographical Note 1914, Apr. 26 Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1936 B.A., City College of New York, New York, N.Y. 1936 1940 Worked in a factory, at various stores, and as a clerk in the Census Bureau, Was...

Capra, Frank Russell, 1897-1991

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Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified." Capra became one of America's most influential directors during the 1930s, ...