Oscar Williams papers concerning The war poets, 1944-1945.

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...

Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891 – December 11, 1968) was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. He was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1913; he married Iphigene Bertha Ochs in 1917. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. Sulzberger broadened the Times’ use of background reporting, pictures, and feature articles, and expanded its sections. ...

Dodd, Mead & Company

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In 1839 Moses W. Dodd purchased an interest in a New York publishing firm established by John S. Taylor. The following year he severed his connection with Taylor and continued alone until his retirement in 1870. He was succeeded by his son, Frank H. Dodd, who, with his cousin Edward S. Mead, formed the firm Dodd & Mead. A retail department was added to the firm and in 1876 Bleecker Van Wagnen was taken as a partner. The firm was then renamed Dodd, Mead & Company. From the guide to t...

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, ...

New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962

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Poet. Married Una Call Kuster in 1913. From the description of Papers of Robinson Jeffers, 1924-1941 (bulk 1924-1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130961 Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was an American poet and dramatist. Born in Pittsburgh in 1887, he graduated from Occidental College in 1905. He married Una Call Jeffers (1884-1950) in 1913, and they had three children. His inspiration came from his wife, their home that he built in 1919, Tor House, and the rugged Big Sur...

Oscar Williams.

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Roberts, Michael, 1902-

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Berryman, John, 1914-1972

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John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and teacher. From the description of John Berryman collection, 1938-1971. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122486626 American modernist poet. From the description of Acceptance speech for the National Book Award in poetry, 1969 March 12 / John Berryman. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18347371 From the description of Mesa encantada : typescript, 1935 April. (Universit...

Beeching, Jack

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Allwood, Norah.

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Rolfe, Edwin, 1909-

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Brandt and Brandt.

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The Yale review.

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Litvinoff, Emanuel

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Benton, Walter, 1909? -

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Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Mass., From the description of Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205133 Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts, traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century; and to the Riverside Press, Henry Oscar Houghton's printi...

Birney, Esther.

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Mallalieu, M. G.

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Smith, William Jay, 1918-....

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American author and Washington University alumnus. From the description of Papers. 1924-1985. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12959285 Poet and Library of Congress poetry consultant (1968-1970). From the description of Two lockets : manuscript poem, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984138 American poet. From the description of Papers of William Jay Smith [manuscript], 1957. (University of Virginia). WorldCat re...

Empson, William, 1906-

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Benton, Lillian.

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Fuller, Roy, 1912-

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Yale University press

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See "A Brief History of Yale University Press" by Robert Pranzatelli, adapted from A World of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes, available at <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/about.asp>. From the guide to the Yale University Press records, 1919-1964, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) I. THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY From its founding in 1908 by George Parmly Day, Yale University Press sought to acquire and publish important works of scholarship, issuin...

Litvinoff, Irene.

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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-

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Symons, Julian, 1912-1994

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Julian Symons was an English novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, short-story writer, historian, and biographer. From the description of Julian Symons collection of papers, 1933-1967. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122531794 From the guide to the Julian Symons collection of papers, 1929]-1967, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) British poet, novelist, historian, and critic J...

Watkins, Vernon, 1907? -

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Swingler, Randall, 1909-

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Ewart, Gavin B, 1916-

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Fraser, G.S. (George Sutherland), 1915-1980

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Epithet: writer and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000166 George Sutherland Fraser (8 November 1915 - 3 January 1980) was a Scottish poet, literary critic and academic. He was born in Glasgow and attended University of St. Andrews. During World War II he served in the British Army in Cairo and Eritrea. He was published as a poet in Salamander, a Cairo literary magazine. After the war he became ...

Van Doren, Mark, 1894-

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Ewart, Dorothy H.

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Hessell, Christopher.

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Corsellis, Helen.

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Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon, 1905-

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Hackett, Francis, 1883-1962

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Irish-born author and editor in the U.S. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wicklow [Ireland], to Stark Young, 1935 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870941 ...

Ebright, Frederick, 1912-

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Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Charles Scribner, 1821-1871, was a partner in the publishing firm of Baker & Scribner, 1846-1871, and carried on alone after Baker's death in 1850. He formed Scribner & Welford in 1857. Charles Scribner's Sons was established in 1870, the same year SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY began. His son Charles, 1854-1930, became president in 1875. He began SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE in 1887. It ceased publication in 1930. His son Charles, 1890-1952, became president in 1932. From the description of Char...

The Macmillan Company

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Birney, Earle, 1904-1995

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Born in Calgary, Alberta, Earle Birney (1904-1995) was educated at Universities of British Columbia, Toronto and California. He lectured in English at the University of Toronto from 1936 to 1941 when he left to serve overseas in World War II. On return, he worked for the CBC in 1945 and in 1946 he joined the Department of English at University of British Columbia, later transferring to the division of Creative Writing. Birney became writer in residence at Scarborough College in 1965. Well known ...

Harcourt, Brace and company, inc.

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Weismiller, Edward Ronald, 1915-

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Muir, Edwin, 1887-

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Bourne, David

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Stepanchev, Stephen, 1915-

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Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989

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Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989), poet and novelist, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on 17 May 1908. He spent his childhood in the United States, Germany, France and Austria, and attended Haverford College and Yale. His most famous work is his first novel, The Asiatics (1935). He also wrote poetry, translations and an autobiography. From the early 1930s, Prokosch printed copies of his own work and that of other writers. He was involved in a forgery scandal following the Sotheby's sale of his pamphl...

Faber and Faber.

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Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

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American poet and critic. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in poetry, 1939. Professor of English at Harvard, 1946-48, and Rutgers, 1953-61. From the description of Letter, 1980 Feb. 4, Key West, Fla., to Henry F. Pommer, Ripon, Wis. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364896 Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. From the description of John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985). (Unknown). W...

Dunstan, Ralph, 1895-

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R. Willimas Parry.

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Forsyth, James Law.

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Prince, F. T. (Frank Templeton), 1912-2003

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Frank Prince was an English poet and academic. From the description of Frank Prince collection. [ca. 1940]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676749872 ...

Tate, Allen, 1899-

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American poet and author. From the description of Typed letters signed (8) : Monteagle and Clarksville, Tenn. and [n.p.], to Stark Young, 1934 Feb. 20-1942 Dec. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875012 ...

Bourne, Harold G.

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Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

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Robert (Von Ranke) Graves was born in London in 1895. He attended King's College School and Rokeby School, Wimbledon, Copthorne School, Sussex, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, 1907-14. In 1926, he received a B. Litt. From St. John's College, Oxford. He was the author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, autobiographies, historical novels, essays, librettos, criticism, short stories, and children’s books. Graves also translated and edited a number of works. He died in 1985 in Deya, Majorca, Sp...

Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005

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Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...

Chatto & Windus (Firm)

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Bill Abrahams

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Coxe, Louis Osborne, 1918-1993

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Coxe has taught English at Harvard, Minnesota, and Bowdoin (1955- ) and is the author of several volumes of poetry. He has called himself the "first neo-Victorian." From the description of Louis O. Coxe letters to William Meredith, 1939-1984. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 79005877 ...

Stauffer, Donald A. (Donald Alfred), 1902-1952

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Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-

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Litvinoff, Emanuel 1915-

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Roberts, Dick, 1919-

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Lewis, Mrs. Gweno.

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Maas, Willard, 1911-

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Henry Holt and company.

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Ann Watkins, inc.

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Ledward, Patricia, 1926-

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Manifold, Katharine.

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MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-

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MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitizer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard. From the guide to the Plays, 1957-1968., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor of Rhetoric...

Rodman, Selden, 1909-2002

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Selden Rodman was born February 19, 1909, in New York City. He graduated from Yale College in 1931. In the 1930s, he helped found the journal Common Sense (1932-1946) with Alfred Bingham. During World War II, he served in the foreign nationalities section of the Office of Strategic Services. In 1944, the Haitian government produced his play, The Revolutionists, which lead to a later career as co-director for the Haitian Centre d'Art (1949-1951), promoting Haitian folk art internationally and ini...

Treece, Henry, 1912-

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Paudney, John

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Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964

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Poet and anthologist. From the description of Papers, 1920-1966. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 56837748 Poet and editor. From the description of Papers of Oscar Williams, 1939-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069013 American poet most noted for his poetry anthologies. From the description of [Poems] / Oscar Williams. [193- -1947] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 491429622 Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York,...

Williams, Oscar, 1900-

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Maddow, Ben

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Meredith, William, 1919-2007

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Epithet: Organist of New College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000304.0x0002bd William Meredith was an American poet, literary critic, librettist, and translator. From the description of William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430869 From the guide to the William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973, (The New York Pub...

Ross, Alan, 1922-2001

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Epithet: poet and editor of 'The London Magazine' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x0001eb ...

Hayes, Gertrude.

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Edward Estlin Cummings

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Alexander, John, 1952-....

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Hay, John, 1915-....

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Poet, naturalist, and grandson of John Milton Hay. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1930-1989]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122545812 John Hay was born in 1915, ten years after the death of his famous grandfather and namesake, John Milton Hay (1838-1905), a Brown alumnus (Class of 1858), poet and diplomat. Clarence L. Hay, father of the younger John Hay, was an archaeologist who, after doing some exploration in Mexico, served as cura...

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Rhys, Keidrych

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The viking press inc.

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George Allen & Unwin.

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Publisher. From the description of Letters, 1959. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203744 The firm of George Allen & Sons began in 1871 as the publisher of John Ruskin, acquiring the publishing branch of Bemrose & Sons in 1909. In 1911 it merged with Swan Sonnenschein to form George Allen & Co. Ltd. Financial difficulties ensued under George Allen's succeeding sons and daughter, and a Receiver for the Debenture Holders was appoint...

George Routledge & sons ltd.

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Thompson, John, 1907-1968

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Ern Malley was the pseudonym of James McAuley and Harold Stewart. Full name said to be Ernest Lalor Malley. From the description of The Ern Malley story [manuscript] : feature / by John Thompson. 1959. (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 62548824 ...

Random house, inc.

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Francis Hackett

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Moore, Marianne, 1887-

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Heppenstall, Rayner, 1911-1981

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(John) Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981), the novelist, poet, critic, BBC producer, and criminal historian, was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, on 27 July 1911 and educated at Huddersfield College and Leeds University, where he graduated in Modern Languages in 1932, and obtained a Diploma in Education in 1933. After a brief period teaching in Dagenham, he moved to London to start a career as a freelance writer and critic. Here he met many other writers and wrote most of his published poetry before ...

Ryan, M.

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Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980

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Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet, playwright, biographer, and writer of children's literature. From the description of Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers, 1920-1976 bulk (1931-1976). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122570595 From the guide to the Muriel Rukeyser collection of papers, 1920-1976, 1931-1976, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American poet. From the ...

Moore, Nicholas, 1918-1986

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Nicholas Moore was born in 1918, the elder son of George Edward Moore (1873-1958) the Cambridge philosopher. Educated at the Dragon School Oxford and Leighton Park School, Reading, he spent a year at St Andrew's University, where he met G.S. Fraser, before going to Trinity College Cambridge. From his schooldays Moore wrote poetry every day and submitted it to various magazines. While at university he started his own magazine Seven and after graduation he continued to live in Cambrid...

Wallace, Stevens

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Manifold, John, 1915-

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Abrahams, William Miller, 1919-1998

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Educated at Harvard, William Abrahams (1919-1998) was a poet and novelist before becoming one of the most distinguished literary editors on the American publishing scene during the last decades of the twentieth century. Among the many renowned writers whose work he guided into print were Lillian Hellman, Joyce Carol Oates, Diane Johnson, Brian Moore, Thomas Flanagan and Pauline Kael. Abrahams was also an influential force in fostering the short story in America, editing the annual O. Henry award...

Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000343 American poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic . From the description of Letter, 1969 January 26 (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 148050827 Conrad Aiken was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. From the description of Conrad Aiken collection of papers, 1913-1963. (...

Thompson, Margaret B.

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Forsyth, Helen

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Creekmore, Hubert

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