Fanny Howe Papers

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Fanny Howe Papers

1981-1995

Manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence, the last including letters from Samuel Beckett, William Corbett, Mark Mirsky, and Alice Walker (one of Walker's containing reference to Tillie Olsen).

2.5 linear ft.

eng, Latn

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Howe, Fanny Sabra, -1889

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American writer. From the description of Fanny Howe papers, 1924-2009. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019172 ...

Mirsky, Mark

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Mirsky was a student in Guérard's writing class at Harvard. He was co-founder of the publishing house Fiction Collective, and was the founder and is the editor of the magazine Fiction. He has written novels and non-fiction books. He is Professor of English at the City College of New York. From the description of Letters to Albert J. Guérard, 1970-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445793 ...

Olsen, Tillie

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Vicki Lerner Bergman is Tillie Olsen's youngest sister. From the description of Letters to Vicki Bergman : photocopies, 1960-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448506 Twentieth century Texas author. From the description of Tillie Olsen collection. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 22581533 American writer, born in 1912 and died in 2007. From the description of Tillie Olsen papers, 1930-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

Walker, Alice, 1944-

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry....

Howe, Fanny, 1940-

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Fanny Howe, born in Buffalo (N.Y.) in 1940, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and filmmaker. She is the author of over 50 books of poetry and prose, including Manimal Woe (2021), Love and I: Poems (2019), Needle’s Eye: Passing Through Youth (2016), Second Childhood (2014), The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (2009), The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003) and Indivisible (2000). Howe was raised in Cambridge (Mass.) with her sisters, Susan Howe and Helen Howe Braider...

Olsen, Tillie

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Biography Tillie Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1913 and has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Her education was cut short by the Depression: she wrote and published when young, but the necessity of raising and supporting four children and full-time work prevented her from writing for twenty years. She was in her mid-forties before she began again. Tell Me A Riddle was originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the...

Mirsky, Mark

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Corbett, William, 1942-....

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"William Corbett is a Writer-in-Residence in the Program of Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books of poetry include Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999), New and Selected Poems (Zoland Books, 1995) and Don't Think: Look (Zoland Books, 1991). He has published two memoirs: Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir (Zoland Books, 1994) and Furthering My Education (Zoland Books, 1997). He writes frequently on art, and has published John Raimondi, Sculpture. He l...