Frank O'Connor Papers 1927-1972

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Frank O'Connor Papers 1927-1972

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/oconnor/oconnor.htm

Journals and notebooks, corrected and uncorrected typescripts, carbon copies, tearsheets, galleys, and occasional correspondence related to the publication of Frank O'Connor's literary works. The major part of the collection is the short story material, O'Connor's chief genre, but this is supplemented by non-fiction including literary criticism, lecture notes, scripts of radio broadcasts, autobiographical material, with reminiscences of his work with the Abbey Theatre, and some sixty-three articles for newspapers and magazines.

10 Linear feet; 24 boxes

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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