Coleman Dowell Papers 1925-1993

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Koch, Ed, 1924-2013

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Edward Irving Koch (December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013) was an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, film critic, and television personality. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. Koch was a lifelong Democrat who described himself as a "liberal with sanity". The author of an ambitious public housing renewal program in his later years as mayor, he began by cutting spending and taxes and cuttin...

Low, Betty

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Williams, Shirley (Shirley Maureen)

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Whitmore, George, 1945-1989

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George Davis Whitmore was a poet, playwright, critic, novelist, and freelance writer. He was born in Denver, Colorado, on September 27, 1945, and received a BA degree in English and Theatre from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1967. Awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, he pursued graduate studies in the Theatre Department at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, then moved to New York in 1968 and began a career as a writer. Whitmore was affiliated with a literary group known a...

Sessoms, Hella

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Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...

Abish, Walter

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O'Brien, John, 1878-1952

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Rev. Patrick Hartigan wrote popular verse under the pseudonym 'John O'Brien". From the description of Letter of John O'Brien [manuscript]. 1947. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224130652 ...

Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002.

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Stage, film and television actress Kim Hunter (nee Janet Cole), was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922. She studied acting and made her stage debut in Florida in a production of PENNY WISE at the Miami Women's Club in 1939. In 1943 she was discovered by a talent scout for David O. Selznick and was put under contract. Her film debut was in THE SEVENTH VICTIM. Kim Hunter is best known for her role as Stella in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE which she played bo...

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

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Carl Van Vechten was an American novelist, critic, essayist, book collector, and photographer. From the description of Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1922-1964. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455166 From the guide to the Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1911-1964, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American photographer, writer,...

Slaff, Bertram

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Lyndon, Andrew

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Dignan, Josef

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Purdy, James, 1914-2009

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James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 - March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short story-writer, poet, and playwright who debuted in 1956. Purdy was born in Hicksville, Ohio, and attended Bowling Green State College (now Bowling Green State University), the University of Chicago and the University of Puebla in Mexico. His most well-known works are the novels "Malcolm" and "The Nephew.": From the guide to the James Purdy papers, 1956-1973, (Ohio University) ...

Pais, Lila

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Baker, Roger

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Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980

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American writer, social critic, journalist, and humanitarian. From the description of Collection, 1952-1980. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122632950 John Howard Griffin, born June 16, 1920, in Dallas, Texas, was a writer, journalist, humanitiarian, and social critic. Griffin was educated at the Institute de Tours, the University of Poitiers, and the Conservatory of Fontainbleau, all in France....

Van Vechten, Fani Marinoff

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Dowell, Coleman

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Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, essayist, poet, editor, and writer of short fiction. He was born on April 8, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Littleton, Colorado. In 1968 he was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to finish his senior year of high school as a foreign exchange student at the Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. In 1972 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After doing graduate ...

Greene, Harlan

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Beeson, Jack

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Composer. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : New York City, to Randall Sutherland, 1978 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270911544 American composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated New York, 28 October 1977 and 2 February 1984, to Joan Peyser, 1977, Oct. 28 and 1984, Feb. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270991920 From the description of The sweet bye and bye. Album leaf. (Unknown). WorldCat record...

Herlie, Eileen

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Bax, Mart

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Dunphy, Jack

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American author and dancer; wrote novels, one-act plays, and short stories; companion of Truman Capote; b. 1914; d. 1992. From the description of Jack Dunphy collection, [19--]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70962503 ...

Adams, Frances

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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...

Aman, Madeleine

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Fey, Isabella

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Segal, Lore Gorszmann

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Kuehl, John Richard, 1928-....

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Sorrentino, Gilbert

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David Markson was born in Albany, New York, on December 20, 1927. He received his B.A. from Union College in 1950 and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1952. He has written seven novels and a critical study. From the description of Letters to David Markson, 1998 Sept. 3-2000 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571237 Louis Mackey was known for his works on Kierkegaard, Saint Augustine and Medieval Philosophy. His published work also included literary criticism, lite...

ABISH, CECILE

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Arnold, Kenneth

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Inge, William

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William Motter Inge (1913-1973) was born in Independence, Kansas. He studied speech and drama at the University of Kansas and graduated in 1935. He received his Master's degree from George Peabody College at Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. He worked as a teacher, laborer, and theater critic. He is best-known as a playwright and novelist. In his lifetime he earned both a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic and an Academy Award for the screenplay to the motion picture Splendor in the Grass. His later works di...

Wilson, Morris

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Beeson, Nora

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Collins, Jack

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Kent, Louise Andrews, 1886-1969

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Louise Andrews Kent was born about 1887 in Brookline, Mass. She married Rich Kent in 1912. She became a newspaper columnist and author of children's books and cookbooks, assuming the persona of "Mrs. Appleyard," to write a series of New England cookbooks. A resident of Brookline, Kent spent summers in Calais, Vt. Louise Andrews Kent died in 1969. From the description of Louise Andrews Kent papers. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36065048 Louise...

Geva, Tamara

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White, Delilah, 1903-

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Purcell, John

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Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-....

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Ford, Ruth 1915-....

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Halliday, Mark, 1949-....

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Morrow, Bradford, 1951-....

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Founded in 1981 by its editor, Bradford Morrow, who himself published the first three issues; subsequently published by David Godine, Collier Macmillan, and, beginning with issue 15 (1990) Bard College, where Morrow is professor of literature. Beginning with issue 14 (1989) it has constituted a semi-annual series of anthologies on a single topic, many of them guest-edited. Writers published in Conjunctions include many associated with Brown University, especially with the Graduate Program in Lit...

White, Edmund, 1940-....

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