Claire Myers Owens, Papers 1896-1983

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Claire Myers Owens, Papers Mss 002., 1896-1983

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Claire Myers Owens, Papers 1896-1983

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/twu/00004/00004-P.html

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Texas-born novelist, lecturer, and author of non-fiction works about self-realization and Zen Buddhism. Graduate of College of Industrial Arts (CIA, later Texas Woman's University) in 1916. Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, published writings, transcriptions of interviews and radio scripts, diaries, legal and financial records, photographs, biographical information and family histories, book reviews, articles, and newsclippings about Owens, as well as artifacts. Correspondence consists of letters to and from family and friends, colleagues in the human potential movement, distinguished scholars in the fields of religion and psychology, publishers, and editors. Owens memorabilia consisting of personal and professional diaries (1920-1982), photographs of Owens with family and friends at various stages of her life, clothing and accessories, address books, and school mementos lend another view to the life of Owens.

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Texas Woman's University, the Woman's Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6641393

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