Philip Roth Papers 1938-2001 (bulk 1960-1999)

Howe, Irving

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Lurie, Alison

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Lurie was born on Sept. 3, 1926 in Chicago, IL; BA, Radcliffe College, 1947; married Jonathan Peale Bishop, Sept. 10, 1948; lecturer (1969-73), assoc. professor (1973-76), and professor of English in 1976, Cornell Univ.; named Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American literature in 1989; won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her Foreign Affairs (1984); other books include The nowhere city (1965), Imaginary friends (1967), The war between the Tates (1974), and The Oxford book of modern fairy ...

Malcolm, Janet

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Miller, Ross N., 1951-....

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Obrien, Edna

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Edna O'Brien, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter, was born December 15, 1932, in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland. Educated first at the local national school and then in a convent, she escaped rural life by attending Pharmaceutical College in Dublin. In 1952, she eloped with Czech-Irish author Ernest Gébler. They moved first to County Wicklow, and then to London, where O'Brien has remained. They divorced after twelve years of marriage, and she raised their two sons alo...

Crichton, Robert.

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Title: 4th Baron Sanquhar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000756.0x0001c2 ...

Škvorecký, Josef

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Kundera, Milan

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Czech writer. Biographical information on Kundera: see "Slovnik českʹych spisovatelu̇" (1964). From the description of Milan Kundera Manuscripts, 1970s. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320409733 ...

Maslow, Jonathan Evan

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Thurman, Judith, 1946-....

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Bellow, Saul

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Saul Bellow (1915-2005), novelist. From the description of Saul Bellow drafts of nobel lecture, 1976-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702194195 Author Saul Bellow was born in Montreal to Russian emigre parents; when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where Bellow was educated at the University of Chicago and Northwestern in Sociology and Anthropology. He began writing novels, and gradually built a respected body of work that saw him recognized as one of the most c...

Malamud, Bernard

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Novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 and raised in Brooklyn. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his heritage would play a key role in his development as a writer. He was also influenced by growing up during the the Depression and by 19th-century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville. His bittersweet, tragicomic stories often merge reality and fantasy, and explore the human condition through themes of suffering and moral obligation. His work has won many ...

Lee, Hermione

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Brookner, Anita

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English author and professor of art history; b. 1928. From the description of Anita Brookner collection, 1972-1997. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70926382 English novelist, art historian, and critic. From the description of Anita Brookner Notebooks, ca. 1986-1994. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 124561294 ...

Wagman, Fredrica

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Plante, David J.

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David Plante is an American novelist living in England since 1966. From the description of David Plante letters to John R. Kaiser, and clippings, 1976-1985. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 41021188 ...

Hoagland, Edward Coolbaugh, 1908-

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Edward Hoagland is a writer born in New York in 1932. Hoagland has written several books of fiction but since the late 1960s he has become known almost exclusivley for his non-fiction. His first novel, Cat Man, won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award in 1956. The Los Angeles Times has called Hoagland "one of our best and most esteemed nature writers." He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1979 and a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1982. Hoagland has al...

Stein, Howard, 1952-....

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Ames, Elizabeth Ann Wyer, 1834-1893

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Atlas, James

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James Atlas is an American editor and literary critic. From the description of James Atlas collection of papers, [1976]-1997. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122639861 ...

Miles, Jack, 1942-....

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Kitaj, R. B.

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R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was a Painter, printmaker in Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of R.B. Kitaj papers, 1960-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81487379 R.B. Kitaj was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 29, 1932. He studied at the Cooper Union Institute for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. In February 1963, Kitaj had his first professional ex...

Rogers, Deborah D., 1953-

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Roth, Philip, 1933-2018

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Author. Full name: Philip Milton Roth. Born 1933. From the description of Philip Roth papers, 1938-2001 (bulk 1960-1999). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982313 Philip Roth is a popular and critically acclaimed American novelist. His observations on the Jewish experience in America, as depicted in such works as Goodbye, Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint, show inventiveness and a singular sense of humor. Some observers find his works unnecessarily scatalogical and self-indul...

Martin, Mildred, 1904-1995

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Biography American writer, known particularly for her book CHINATOWN'S ANGRY ANGEL, the story of Donaldina Cameron's early years fighting the yellow slave trade. Cameron House, a community services agency serving the Chinese in San Francisco, was named for Donaldina Cameron, and the agency she founded, Ming Quong, survives in the South Bay. From the guide to the Mildred Martin Papers, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Spec...

Hanson, Polly

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Donadio, Candida, 1929-2001

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Styron, William, 1925-2006

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American novelist William Styron was born in Virginia and graduated from Duke. After serving in World War II, he worked as an editor while writing his first novel. His work has been both controversial and timely; his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, explored the theme of slavery, and benefitted from being released during the racially-charged 1960s, and his American Book Award-winning novel, Sophie's Choice, examined a World War II concentration camp survivor. His styl...

Manea, Norman

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Conarroe, Joel, 1934-

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Maurer, Charlotte

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Škvorecký, Josef

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Mangione, Jerre, 1909-1998

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Jerre and Patricia Mangione were friends of Carl Zigrosser. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1956-1971. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902127 ...

Baker, R. S. (Robert Samuel), 1926-2004

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English professor. From the description of Papers of R.S. Baker. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71073567 ...

Ames, Elizabeth

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O'Brien, Edna

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Irish author Edna O'Brien (1930[?]–) is known primarily as a novelist. O'Brien has been described as "Ireland's most successful woman writer." "O'Brien, Edna." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 26, 2007). From the guide to the "Virginia" playscript, circa 1981, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections) ...

Tumin, Melvin M. (Melvin Marvin), 1919-1994

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Lurie, Alison

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Alison Lurie was born in 1926 and is the author of Love and Friendship (1962), Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates, Real People (1969), Only Children (1979), Language of Clothes (1981), and other novels. She is a Professor of English at Cornell University. From the guide to the Alison Lurie papers, [ca. 1960-1977], (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Lurie (b. 1926) graduate from Radcliffe College (1947) and writes novels...

Malamud, Bernard

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Biographical Note 1914, Apr. 26 Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1936 B.A., City College of New York, New York, N.Y. 1936 1940 Worked in a factory, at various stores, and as a clerk in the Census Bureau, Was...

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998

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Epithet: Professor of English British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002f8 American writer, literary critic and memoirist; author of "On native grounds," and "A walk in the city." From the description of Alfred Kazin letter [manuscript], 1943 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999332 Writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred Kazin: oral h...

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008

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English playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, left-wing political activist and poet. From the description of Landscape : typescript with autograph revisions : [England?, 1967]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270914943 English playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and poet. From the description of Harold Pinter Collection, 1960-1980. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590489 ...

Hoagland, Edward

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Harnack, Curtis, 1927-2013

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American author. From the description of Papers, 1945-1979. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28412023 ...

Howe, Irving.

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Maurer, Robert E.

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Atlas, James

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James Atlas is an American editor and literary critic. From the guide to the James Atlas collection of papers, 1976]-1997, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) ...

Kundera, Milan

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Stern, Richard, 1928-2013

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Geng, Veronica

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Maslow, Jonathan Evan

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Aíken, Joan, 1924-2004

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English author; daughter of poet Conrad Potter and Jessie (McDonald) Aiken; married 1st: Ronald George Brown (d. 1955); 2nd: Julius Goldstein. From the description of Joan Aiken collection, 1963-1989. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70926384 From the description of Joan Aiken collection, 1963-1994. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 671648244 Created by Joan Aiken in the course of her career in children's literature. From the guide to the ...

Dayan, Yaël, 1939-

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Hills, L. Rust

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Editor and author. From the description of Papers, 1954-1996. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 42833663 ...

Wagman, Fredrica

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Grausman, Philip, 1935-

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Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-2002

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Author and critic Ron Verlin Cassill was born on May 17, 1919, in Cedar Falls, IA, son of Mary Elizabeth Glosser and Howard Earl Cassill. Following his graduation from Blakesburg High School, Cassill enrolled in the University of Iowa, taking his bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1939. In 1949 he joined the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop as an instructor of English. Cassill remained at Iowa until 1952. Following a dispute with University and English Department administration over the ...

Rostropowicz, Joanna

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Dunford, Judith

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Brookner, Anita.

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Novelist and art historian Anita Brookner was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London, England, on July 16, 1928. Her father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had immigrated from Poland and founded a tobacco factory. Maude changed their surname to Brookner due to anti-German sentiment in England. Anita Brookner had a lonely childhood, although her grandmother and uncle lived with the family, and her parents, nonreligiou...

Schneider, Herman, 1905-2003

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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-....

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As the winner of the National Book Award for her 1970 novel Them and the recipient of four O. Henry awards and numerous other literary prizes, Joyce Carol Oates is among the most distinguished writers in the United States. In her considerable body of work, she has created an array of male and female protagonists from a diversity of regional, economic, and occupational backgrounds. In the four decades since her first book, the short-story collection By the North Gate, appeared to critical acclaim...

Thurman, Judith, 1946-....

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Bellow, Saul

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Herr, Michael, 1940-....

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Bloom, Claire, 1931-....

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English actress. From the description of Typed letter signed : Music Box Theatre, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1959 Feb. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868012 Actress; b. Patricia Claire Bloom. From the description of Claire Bloom collection, 1954-1995 (bulk 1950s-1970s). (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70954215 ...

Stein, Howard

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Wheatcroft, John, 1925-

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Author. From the description of John Wheatcroft papers, 1973-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015577 ...

Starbuck, George, 1931-

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Poet and college professor; b. George Edwin Beiswanger. From the description of Papers of George Starbuck, 1966-1971. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233108945 From the description of Papers, 1966-1971. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28412030 Starbuck was an American poet, editor at Houghton Mifflin, and professor at Boston University. From the description of Poems, 1957-1964. (Harvard University). WorldCat record...

Klíma, Ivan

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Asher, Aaron

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Crichton, Robert

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Title: 6th Baron Sanquhar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000756.0x0001c3 Title: 8th Baron Crichton of Sanquhar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000756.0x0001c4 Epithet: Lord Sanquhair British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10...

Engle, Paul, 1908-1991

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Paul Engle was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on October 12, 1908. Engle attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, where he graduated cum laude in 1931, emphasizing English literature, American history and languages. In 1932, Paul Engle received his M.A. from the University of Iowa. In the fall of 1933, Paul Engle received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He sailed for England, enrolled in Merton College at Oxford University, and began studies under the poet Edmund Blunden. He was awarded a second M...

Ozick, Cynthia, 1928-

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Cynthia Ozick has published novels, criticism, essays, and short stories. Her fiction is serious, careful, and passionately written, often involving the theme of Judaism in a Christian world. Her deeply distinctive writing style, philosophical themes, and diverse output have made her one of the most honored and respected contemporary American authors. From the description of Cynthia Ozick letter to Joshua Welsh, 1999 April 6. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record...

Malcolm, Janet.

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The Winn [Wiener] family: Josef Winn (1901 Podebrady-1983 New York) was a psychiatrist and a writer. He wrote short stories, aphorisms and commentaries mainly in a satirical and comical style under his pseudonym Alcantara. His works were published largely in “Lidové noviny,” “Tribuna” and “Dobrý den” (satirical biweekly magazine edited by Karel Poláček). Josef Wiener was also a friend and the physician of the members of the “Liberated Theater” Osvobozené Divadlo, a famou...

Updike, John

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American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...

Lelchuk, Alan

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American author of novels and short stories. From the description of Alan Lelchuk collection, 1969-1994. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968396 ...

Brustein, Robert Sanford, 1927-....

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Director. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Sanford Brustein : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569433 ...

Jacoby, Susan, 1945-....

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Miller, Ross

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Guston, Philip, 1913-1980

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xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">Painter. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78587878 Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo...

Plante, David

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Lee, Hermione

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Clark, Blair, 1917-2000

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Blair Clark was a journalist and political activist who held many positions in both spheres. While at Harvard University Clark befriended classmate John F. Kennedy. The two would remain in touch throughout Kennedy's political career, and Clark and Jacqueline Kennedy would correspond for decades. Other notable people with whom Clark was close include poet Robert Lowell and journalist Theodore H. White. Clark served as General Manager of CBS News from 1961-1964, and later ...

Fuller, Blair

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Maschler, Tom, 1933-

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Rogers, Thomas, 1927-2007

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Thomas Hunton Rogers was an author and educator, probably best known for his first novel, The Pursuit of Happiness. Born in Chicago, June 23, 1927, he served in the United States Army Air Force 1945-1946 before earning a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Iowa. He taught at the University of Chicago before beginning a long career as a member of the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University in 1961. His first novel, The Pursuit of Happiness, was nominated for a National Book Award; h...

Carter, Angela, 1940-1992

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Epithet: née Stalker, writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x0001b9 Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x00033f ...

Straus, Roger W. (Roger Williams), 1917-2004

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Publisher. From the description of Oral history interview with Roger W. Straus, Jr., 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738652 Epithet: of Farrar, Straus and Giroux British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x00022b ...