Henry RothCollection 1959,1992-1999

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Henry RothCollection 1959,1992-1999

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The HenryRoth Collection contains papers pertinent to Henry Roth's writing, butcollected and donated by other individuals. The items consist of early drafts,revisions, and bound volumes of his series, with notes by Roth and his editor, Robert Weil. Inaddition to these manuscripts, the collection includes Roth's , whichcontains a list of words hand-written and defined by Roth. Other items in thecollection consist of awards and a booklet from Roth's son, Hugh Roth, given tohis parents. Mercy of a RudeStream Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary

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Roth, Henry

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Writer Henry Roth is best known for his literary classic Call it Sleep, published in 1934 when Roth was twenty-eight. Through the eyes of a young boy, the autobiographical novel chronicles the Lower East Side in the early decades of the twentieth century, then home to many Eastern European Jewish immigrants. The novel was well received at publication, but enjoyed even greater acclaim in the 1960s when it was rediscovered and critics labeled it a literary classic. Roth published very...