Bookstore Press Records. undated, 1967-1976.

Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014

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Poet and professor. From the description of Papers, 1936-1980. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56815853 American poet. From the description of Introduction to Seamus Heaney's reading to the Academy of American Poets at the Morgan Library : typescript with autograph revisions, [1984]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874953 From the description of The fundamental project of technology : typescript photocopy with autograph revisions, [n.d.]. (Un...

Meltzer, David J.

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Poet. From the description of Papers, 1954-1974. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49381183 From the description of Letters, 1969-1970. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49254186 American poet. From the description of Song : signed typescript, [196-] / David Meltzer. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423138 Lionel David Meltzer, 1937-, is an American poet and musician. He is considered one of the key po...

Hillerman, Tony

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Tony Hillerman, writer and teacher, was born May 27, 1925 in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. He grew up in the rural community and attended the only local grade school, a Catholic school for girls. When the United States entered World War II, Hillerman joined the army and served for two years in Europe. He returned to Oklahoma and received a BA from the University of Oklahoma in 1946. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Oklahoma until he became UPI's Santa Fe Bureau M...

Krauss, Ruth

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Ruth Krauss was born in 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland . She attended several universities and institutes. She received her bachelor's degree from the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Arts . In 1940, she married David Leisk (known as Crockett Johnson ). From 1944 until 1979, Krauss published many children's works, some of which she illustrated herself. Other children's books were collaborations with her husband, usually employing Krauss's text and Johnson's illustrations. Krauss's career as a wri...

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...

Hausman, Gerald.

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Gerald Hausman was born 13 October 1945 in Baltimore, MD, the son of Sidney (an engineer) and Dorothy (Little) Hausman. He attended New Mexico Highlands University (B.A., 1968). His career has included Poetry teacher (Lenox, MA, 1969-1972), editor of the Bookstore Press (1972-1977), vice-president of Sunstone Press (Santa Fe, NM, 1979-1983); English teacher at the Santa Fe Preparatory School (1983-1987). He has also been the Poet-in-residence in public schools (1970-1976) and at Central Connecti...

Wakoski, Diane.

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Poet. From the description of Letters, 1984-1996. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 47287823 American poet. From the description of Papers, 1959-[ongoing] (bulk 1959-1978) (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28318855 Diane Wakoski (b. 1937), American poet and teacher. From the description of Diane Wakoski poems, 1971-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702199357 From the description of Diane Wakoski letters to John ...

Davenport, Guy

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Author and illustrator (Nov. 23, 1927-Jan. 4, 2005). Nov. 23, 1927 Born in Anderson, South Carolina 1944 1948 Studied classics and English literature at Duke University 1948 Won Rhodes Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford ...

Rothenberg, Jerome

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Leisk, David Johnson

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Valerie Sheehan

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Davis, Halsey

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Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

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American poet and critic. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in poetry, 1939. Professor of English at Harvard, 1946-48, and Rutgers, 1953-61. From the description of Letter, 1980 Feb. 4, Key West, Fla., to Henry F. Pommer, Ripon, Wis. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364896 Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. From the description of John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985). (Unknown). W...

Burke, Clifford.

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Gibson, Bill

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Saroyan, Aram.

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Aram Saroyan was born 25 September 1943, the son of playwright William Saroyan and Carol (Marcus) Saroyan, later Carol Matthau . He attended high school at the Trinity School in New York City. He attended college at the University of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University, but never completed a college degree. In the late 1960s Saroyan experimented with marijuana and began to develop a career as a poet. Director Mike Nichols wanted to cast Saroyan in the lead of his movie The Grad...

Kherdian, David

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Essayist, poet, and author David Kherdian (1931-) was the founder and co-editor of the literary magazine Nascent . His work on poetry includes Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (1965). Kherdian is also the author of a number of childrens' books, including The Road from Home : the Story of an Armenian Girl (1979), a Newbery Honor Book (1980) that tells of the childhood of his mother, who grew up in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population. ...

Wilentz, Ted

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Bookstore Press

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Small press publisher of poetry, children's books, and cookbooks, in Lenox, Mass. From the description of Bookstore Press records, 1967-1976. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415972 The Bookstore Press began publishing in 1971. The first book published was a collection of poetry by its founder, Gerald Hausman, titled New Marlboro Stage . Working out of Lenox, Massachusetts, Hausman, assisted by his wife Lorry and David Silverstein, published poetry, childre...

Smith, Kelly, 1978-

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Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

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Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

Fulton, Len.

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Brautigan, Richard

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Biographical Information Richard Gary Brautigan, 1935-1984 American novelist, short story writer, and poet. 1935 Born 30 January in Tacoma, Washington, oldest child of Bernard F. Brautigan and Mary Lull Brautigan. Very little is known about his childhood, which he refused to discuss. Some sources say that Brautigan never knew his father, others say that his father ne...

Koller, James

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Poet, novelist and editor of Coyote's Journal and Coyote Books; originally of Illinois, later of San Francisco, Calif., New Mexico, and Brunswick, Me.; b. James Anthony Koller, 1936. From the description of James Koller papers, 1959-1986. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28412840 Born in 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois, Koller is an American poet, novelist, editor and publisher. Koller obtained his B.A. from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois in 1958; h...

Rockwell, Molly

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Cornish, Samuel James

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Freeway Press

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Housatantic Valley High School

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Minasian, Katchik

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Johnson, Crockett

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Edson, Russell

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Brock, Ray

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Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997

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American author of children's and young adult books; Newbery Award winner, 1949 and Kerlan Award winner, 1975. From the description of Papers, 1947-1984. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62448831 Marguerite Henry was born April 13, 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She attended Milwaukee State Teacher's College for two years, and in 1940 published her first book for children, Auno and Tauno : A Story of Finland . During the 1940s, Marguerite Henry also...

Hausman re Krauss

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Atkinson, Ron

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Corman, Cid

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American poet and editor of the small magazine Origin. From the description of Letters : Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Mr. & Mrs. Kirgo, 1951 May 8-July 9. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32415686 Highly prolific poet, translator, and prose writer, Cid Corman was born in Boston in 1924. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Tufts University in 1941, graduating in 1945. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Universit...

Malanga, Gerard

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American author, poet, periodical editor of the first two issues of Inter/view, and of Intransit: the Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga monster issue (1968). From the guide to the Gerard Malanga Papers, 1944-1971, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, and filmmaker. He was born in New York in 1943, and studied at the School of Industrial Art and Wagner College. He was Andy Warhol's chief assistant from...

Giligia Press

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Hyman, Trina Schart

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American illustrator of children's and young adult books, best known for her illustrations of fairy and folk tales. From the description of The ghost next door : production material, [1971?]. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62443650 From the description of The moon singer : production material, [1969?]. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62494541 From the description of Caddie Woodlawn : production material, [1973...

Lippman, Peter

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Snyder, Gary

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Biography Biographical Narrative Masa Uehara, daughter of Tokusei and Mitsu, was raised in Japan. She and Gary Snyder were introduced in 1966 at a dinner party hosted by Hisao Kanaseki, one of her university professors and a friend of Snyder's. At the time of their introduction Uehara had recently graduated from Kobe University and was planning to pursue graduate studies at Ochanomizu Women's Universit...

Johns, Jeanne

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Borland, Hal, 1900-1978

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Hal Borland (1900-1978) was a well-known American author, as well as a journalist for "The Denver Post," "The New York Times," and "Audubon Magazine." His works include "When the Legends Die," which was made into a movie in 1972. From the guide to the Hal Glen Borland Papers (MS 104), 1942-1978, 1950-1978, (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.) Harold Glen Borland, American author, journalist, and naturalist, was born in Sterlin...

Metcalf, Paul C.

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Paul Metcalf was a writer of poetry, plays and prose, who used an experimental style. Metcalf was born in East Milton, Massachusetts, to a New England family whose ancestors included Herman Melville and Roger Williams. One of Metcalf's best known works is Genoa , a story in which the author alludes to his family's relationship to Melville. In 1987 Paul Metcalf was honored by the American Academy and institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Metcalf died on January 21, 1999,...

Devries, Peter

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Wilbur, Richard

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Richard Wilbur (1921- ) is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Things of This World (1956) in 1957 (for which he also won the National Book Award) and for New and Collected Poems (1988) in 1989. Among Wilbur's other honors are the 1983 Drama Desk Special Award for his translation of The Misanthrope, the Edna St Vincent Millay Award, t...

Vibert, Ed

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Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Mark Van Doren and his wife, Dorothy Van Doren. From the description of Letters, 1965-1978, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877479 Mark Van Doren was an American author, scholar, and educator. He is probably best remembered for his long tenure as Columbia professor, where he was noted for his inspired Humanities courses and respect for students. His poetry was meticulously well-crafted and gr...

Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005

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Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...