Knox Burger Archive ca. 1969-2000

ArchivalResource

Knox Burger Archive ca. 1969-2000

Knox Burger was an editor, writer and journalist based in New York City. While serving in World War II, Burger contributed to , and then after the war to such publications as He then moved on to editing for Dell and Fawcett Publications. In 1970, he founded Knox Burger and Associates, a literary agency which later merged with the Harold Ober agency. The collection consists of Burger's correspondence from the late 1960's through 2000. Yank Collier's.

9.0 linear feet; (6 boxes)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6330288

Fales Library & Special Collections

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

Scott, Toni

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6073cg6 (person)

Bergman, Andrew

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66138z1 (person)

Rifkin, Shepard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bx0g75 (person)

Curtis Brown Ltd.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v3fnd (corporateBody)

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Incorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son. From the guide to the Curtis Brown, Ltd. Records, 1914-2006., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co...

Mason, Robert, 1942-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62g6d5r (person)

Huchthausen, Peter A., 1939-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b2vn2 (person)

McCaig, Donald

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z86gt (person)

Westlake, Donald E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns0xq7 (person)

Donald E. Westlake, screenwriter; Jim Thompson, novelist. From the description of The grifters : screenplay, 1989, July - August. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122314276 ...

Burger, Knox

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj58m0 (corporateBody)

In college, Burger was the editor of the Cornell Widow from the fall of 1942 to spring 1943. He left college in April 1943 to join the army. In the service, he contributed freelance reportage, fiction and humor to Yank, the Army Weekly. While serving with a B-29 bomb squadron in the Marianas, he covered a number of missions over Japan, and was transferred to the Yank Saipan bureau late in the summer of 1945, just before the Japanese surrender. Burger moved north to Tokyo, where he w...

Ashley, Steven, 1940-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j18sz7 (person)

Caunitz, William J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rz833x (person)

Knox Burger and Associates Ltd.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cg894m (corporateBody)

White, Robin A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w17wmq (person)

Proper, Datus C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q903rj (person)

Datus Carryer Proper was born in Des Moines, Iowa on April 18, 1934, the son of William Glisan Proper and Marjorie Carryer Proper. His extended family ancestors included Ida Sedgwick Proper, an early suffragist and New York artist, and Datus DeWitt Proper, an Iowa Civil War veteran and Baptist preacher. Datus C. Proper grew up in Iowa, Nebraska, Northern Minnesota, and Yellowstone National Park, where his father worked as a personnel officer for the Park from 1946 to 1955. Proper attended second...

Byrne, Robert, 1930-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p9qcr (person)

Block, Lawrence

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j79zm8 (person)

Lawrence Block (1938- ) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for his books about recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1993. From the guide to the Lawrence Block manuscripts, 1960-1969, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) ...

Cammarata, Phil

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cx0f8h (person)

Braly, Malcolm, 1925-1980

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6715vh9 (person)

American author and mystery writer; writer in residence at University of Maryland; served 17 years in prison on burglary charge, released in 1967; d. 1980. From the description of Malcolm Braly collection, [19--]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969600 American mystery writer; d. 1980. From the description of Malcolm Braly collection, [19--]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965280 ...