Papers 1940-1970

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Papers 1940-1970

Correspondence, poems, and research notes and other records collected for bibliographies of H.L. Davis, Frederick Manfred, and Vardis Fisher.

2 c.f.

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6378751

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Davis, H. L. (Harold Lenoir), 1896-1960

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Davis was born on Oct. 18, 1894 in Rone's Mill, near Roseburg, OR; graduated from high school in The Dalles in 1912, then worked as a deputy county assessor and as a member of a survey crew, but still had insufficient funds to enroll at Stanford Univ.; drafted into the army in 1918, where he served as a clerk; wrote poetry published in Chicago's Poetry magazine in 1919; worked at various jobs while writing poetry in the 1920s; in 1927 wrote a pamphlet, Status rerum, with James Stevens, attacking...

Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968

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Resident of Hagerman, Idaho; novelist and director of Idaho Writers' Project for the Works Progress Administration. From the description of Collection, 1927-1972. (University of Idaho Library). WorldCat record id: 42927292 American teacher, poet, novelist; taught at University of Utah and New York University. From the description of Letter to Robert Newton Linscott [manuscript], 1930 November 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812269 Ame...

Kellogg, George Alexis, 1916-1970

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George Alexis Kellogg was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 7, 1916. He received his B.A. and B.S.L.S. degrees from Columbia University in 1940 and 1941 respectively, and his M.A. from Yale in 1947. On July 3, 1940 he married Ruth E. Heningham; they had two children. From 1940 to 1943 he was a librarian at Columbia University. He then served in World War II as a Marine Corps sergeant. During the years 1947 to 1950 he taught English at Lafayette College and Queens College. He returned to the libr...

Manfred, Frederick Feikema, 1912-1994

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American author. First critically acclaimed novel published in 1944. The majority of his stories and novels are set in the region he named "Siouxland", an area bordering the Sioux River in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa. Frederick Manfred died September 7, 1994. From the description of Frederick Manfred papers, 1912-1994. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62685104 Frederick Manfred was born Frederick Feikema on January 6, 1912 on a far...