Ardrey, Robert. Papers 1928-1974

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Ardrey, Robert. Papers 1928-1974

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Robert Ardrey (1908-1980) Anthropologist and screenwriter. Contains personal and business correspondence; typescripts of papers Ardrey wrote as a student at the University of Chicago; manuscripts of plays, screenplays, novels, and short stories; writings and personal papers of his sons; the correspondence of Helen Johnson/Ardrey; newspaper clippings and reviews; and photographs. Correspondents include Thornton Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, and Clifford Odets

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Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963

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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Ardrey, Robert

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Robert Ardrey was born in Chicago Illinois on the 16 October 1908, to Robert Leslie Ardrey and Marie Haswell. He attended the University of Chicago between 1927 and 1930, where he studied in the Natural and Social Science department, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Thornton Wilder became a mentor to Ardrey at the university, and encouraged him to pursue writing. Robert Ardrey began his professional writing career as a playwright, writing such plays as Star-Spangled (1936),...