Reminiscences of Gordon Norton Ray : oral history, 1968.
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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986
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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...
Burns, Joan Simpson
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Author and editor Joan Simpson Burns worked at Partisan Review, Readers' Subscription Book Club, CBS/Columbia Records and Harcourt Brace in New York City. She is the author of The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist and the Institution in America (1975) and editor of The Dechronization of Sam Magruder, a novel by her father George Gaylord Simpson (1996). She has lived in Williamstown, Mass., since 1969 when she married historian James MacGregor Burns; both had children from previous marriages. ...
