Stanley Edgar Hyman Papers 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970)

Kramer, Hilton

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Ellison, Ralph, 1914-1994

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African American author, born Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) in Oklahoma to a family who migrated from South Carolina. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1990-1994. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32828103 African American author and educator. Born 1914; died 1994. From the description of Ralph Ellison papers, 1890-2005 (bulk 1930-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983760 Ralph Ellison began writing seriously in 1939....

Delbanco, Nicholas

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Delbanco is an American author and poet. From the description of Consider Sappho burning : manuscripts, 1967 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78457387 Author (b. London, England) of over twenty-four books, professor, editor of selected works of John Gardner and Bernard Malamud. Has served as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and as Robert Frost Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Also serv...

Kostelanetz, Richard

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Richard Kostelanetz was born on May 14, 1940, in New York, NY. He is the son of Boris Kostelanetz, a lawyer, and Ethel (Cory) Kostelanetz. He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1962 with honors. He pursued graduate study at King's College in London from 1964 to 1965 and received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1966. Richard Kostelanetz is a writer, visual artist, critic, poet, composer, filmmaker, video artist, lecturer and editor of the avant-garde. In 1971, employing a radically fo...

Lentricchia, Frank 1940-

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Hentoff, Nat

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Ellison, Ralph

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Biographical Note Ralph Ellison 1914, Mar.1 Born, Oklahoma City, Okla. 1933 1936 Attended Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. 1938 ...

Adler, Renata

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Barth, John, 1930-....

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Author. From the description of John Barth literary manuscripts, 1955-1978 (bulk 1955-1968). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070336 Biographical Note: John Barth, American author, was born in Cambridge, MD, May 27, 1930. He received his B.A. (1951) and his M.A. (1952) from The Johns Hopkins University. Barth taught at Penn State University and SUNY, Buffalo before returning to Hopkins in 1973 as professor of English and creative writing. He is now P...

Lentricchia, Frank

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Delbanco, Nicholas

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Delbanco is an American author and poet. From the guide to the Nicholas Delbanco papers for, Consider Sappho burning, 1967 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Burke, Kenneth

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Kenneth Burke was an American literary critic and philosopher of language. From the description of Kenneth Burke letters to Stanley Weintraub, 1971-1984. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 768251269 From the description of Towards looking back [manuscript], 1976. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 768131282 From the description of An Eye-poem for the ear [manuscript] / Kenneth Burke. (Pennsylvania State Univers...

Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970.

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Literary critic and educator. From the description of Papers, 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 30891852 From the description of Papers of Stanley Edgar Hyman, 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070459 Biographical Note 1919, June 11 Born, New York, N.Y. 19...

Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979

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James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was an Irish-American novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet, and literary critic. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Chicago and published his first short story in 1929. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan trilogy and for his A note on Literary Criticism, in which he described two types of the American Marxist character. From the guide to the James T. Farrell Collection, 1953-1961, (Special Colle...

Zimmerman, Ben

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Automobile racer. From the description of Interview, 1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367564580 ...

Wasserstrom, William.

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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...

Weisinger, Herbert, 1913-1999

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Bernstein, Walter

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Fergusson, Francis.

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Literary critic. From the description of Reminiscences of Francis Fergusson : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308338 ...

Aaron, Daniel, 1912-....

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Daniel Aaron was born in Chicago in 1912. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1933 and received his doctorate in 1943 from Harvard University. Aaron's first teaching position was at Harvard, where he lectured from 1936-1939 in the Department of English. In 1939, Aaron joined the Smith faculty. During his time at Smith, Aaron travelled as a visiting lecturer to the Guggenheim (1947), Bennington College (1950-51), the University of Helsinki (1951-52), Amherst College (1954-55), the Uni...

Raglan, Baron (FitzRoy Richard Somerset), 1885-1964

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Richards, I.A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979

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Richards (1893-1979) was an English poet, literary critic and theorist. From the description of Poems, 1961 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84945619 Richards taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Ivor Armstrong Richards, 1940-1981 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973268 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from I. A. Richards and his wife, Dorothea Richards. From the description...

Scher, Louis L.

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Finkel, Donald

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Nemerov, Howard

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Howard Nemerov was an American educator and author, most widely known for his poetry. His verse could be poignant, philosophical, or witty, and was awarded numerous honors including a Pulitzer Prize. A long-time professor at Washington University in St. Louis, he also published memorable prose, and contributed editorial work or commentary for numerous publications. From the description of Howard Nemerov letter to Louis Untermeyer, 1963 Sept. 5. (Pennsylvania State University Librarie...

Mintz, June Mirken

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Hentoff, Nat

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Jeltrup, Thomas

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Empson, William, 1906-1984

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English critic and teacher. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (29) : London, Sheffield, Worcester, Beijing, and Singapore, to John Davenport, 1940 Aug. 7-1966 Mar. 7 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870769 William Empson, born in 1791, was educated at Winchester and then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He began to contribute to the Edinburgh review in 1832 and from then until 1849 he wrote more than 60 articles on law, politics, a...

Pynchon, Thomas

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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

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Poet, acting editor of The Dial magazine, 1925-1929. Born Marianne Craig Moore. From the description of Book manuscripts, 1935-1967. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122417395 From the description of Albums, [ca. 1905-1936]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524976 From the description of Family correspondence, 1848-1972, bulk 1905-1972. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540617 From the desc...

Orenstein, Frank

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Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987

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Harap, Louis

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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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American editor and writer. From the description of Letter to Matthew Bruccoli [manuscript], 1975 December 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812058 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1969. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810601 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874698 Malcolm Cowley was an influential liter...

Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965

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American novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters to Shirley Jackson, 1954, 1958. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590225 Shirley Jackson (1919-1965) was a 20th century author, born to a mother from a long-time San Francisco family of architects and a father from England. Shirley began writing verse almost as soon as she could write, according to her mother, and, at the age of twelv...

Bennington College

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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...

Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963

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Newton Arvin was born on August 9, 1900 in Valparaiso, Indiana. He was eduated at Harvard University (A.B., 1921) and joined the Smith College faculty in 1922. He taught at Smith until his forced retirement in 1960. He died on March 21, 1963 of pancreatic cancer. Arvin specialized in 19th century American literature and wrote biographies of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Melville and Whitman. He was often in residence at Yaddo where he formed friendships with Truman Capote, Carson McCullers and others. ...

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-....

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Kostelanetz, Richard

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Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001

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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...

Williams, Jay, 1914-1978

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Jay Williams was born on May 31, 1914 in Buffalo, New York. Before he became a professional writer in 1945, Mr. Williams appeared in vaudeville shows and night clubs and was a press agent for the Hollywood Theater Alliance. His first books was published in 1943 and after returning from World War II, he committed himself full-time to writing. He published over 60 children's and young adult books after 1943. Jay Williams died on July 12, 1978. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. ...

Bodkin, Maud

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Kramer, Hilton

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Lehrman, Walter D.

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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965

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Randall Jarrell (6 May 1914 – 14 October 1965), the noted American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University where he studied under Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom, edited the student humor magazine, captained the tennis team, received a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After graduating from Vanderbilt, Jarrell served as a teaching instructor at Kenyon College, Gambier, ...

Harap, Louis

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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 ...

Bernstein, Walter

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Walter Bernstein, screenwriter. Story by Damon Runyon. From the description of Little Miss Marker: screenplay, 1978, December 12. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122580904 ...

Finkel, Donald L., 1943-....

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Poet-in-residence, Washington University; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419612 American author. From the description of Papers. 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905619 ...

Pynchon, Thomas

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