Anne Halley Papers 1886-2004

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Anne Halley Papers 1886-2004

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Writer, editor, and educator, Anne Halley was born in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1928. A child during the Holocaust, she relocated with her family to Olean, New York during the late 1930s so that her father, who was Jewish, could resume his practice of medicine. Graduating from Wellesley and the University of Minnesota, Halley married a fellow writer and educator, Jules Chametzky, in 1958. Together they raised three sons in Amherst, Massachusetts where Chametzky was a professor of English at UMass and Halley taught and wrote. It was during the late 1960s through the 1970s that she produced the first two of her three published collections of poetry. The last was published in 2003 the year before she died from complications of multiple myeloma at the age of 75. Drafts of published and unpublished short stories and poems comprise the bulk of this collection. Letters to and from Halley, in particular those that depict her education at Wellesley and her professional life during the 1960s-1980s, make up another significant portion of her papers. Publisher's correspondence and a draft of Halley's afterward document the Chametzkys effort to release a new edition of Mary Doyle Curran's book, , for which Halley and Chametzky oversaw the literary rights. Photographs of Halley's childhood in Germany and New York as well as later photographs thatillustrate the growth of her own family in Minnesota and Massachusetts offer a visual representation of her remarkable professional and pesonal life. The Parish and the Hill

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Curran, Mary Doyle, 1917-1981

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Halley, Anne.

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Anne Halley, ca. 1956 Anne Halley was born Ute Marianne Elisabeth Halle in Bremerhaven, Germany on November 9, 1928 to Dr. Maxwell Halle and Dr. Margarethe Kohlhepp Halle. Growing up during the Holocaust, Anne's family was briefly divided after her father, who was Jewish and forbidden to practice medicine, relocated to the U.S. with her older brother in 1936. Her mother followed a year later leaving Anne and her twin sister, Renate, under the protection of a Lutheran au...