Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Papers, 1925-1975

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Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Papers, 1925-1975

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Jacques Barzun, professor and critic, and Wendell Hertig Taylor, a retired scientist, were life-long friends and enthusiastic readers, critics, and collectors of detective fiction. The collection includes correspondence, notes, and typed drafts concerning and both edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor. A Catalogue of Crime Fifty Classics of Crime,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers.

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Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

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Born in France on November 30, 1907, critic-historian Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920 and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia until his retirement in 1975, having also for a decade been Dean of Faculties and Provost. From 1975 to 1993 he was Literary Adviser to Charles Scribner's Sons. Among his forty books are biographical-critical studies of William James and Hector Berlioz, several volumes of literary and cultu...