Papers ofHenry Roth undated, 1918-2000

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Papers ofHenry Roth undated, 1918-2000

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Thiscollection contains personal papers of the writer Henry Roth. It is comprisedof extensive correspondence, journals and notebooks of his writing, andpublished and unpublished manuscripts of his work. There are also papersconcerning Roth's interests in Israel, Judaism, and Leftist politics,publications by and about him, and volumes of his works. In addition, thepapers also include a postcard and art print collection, photographs,biographical material, and a list of monographs once housed in Roth’s personallibrary.

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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...