Janet Lewis papers, 1964-1989.

Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024

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Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934, Lawton, Oklahoma – died January 24, 2024, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American and Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet from Oklahoma and New Mexico. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance. His follow-up work The Way to Rainy Mountain blends folklore with memoir. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 fo...

Davie, Donald, 1922-1995

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Donald Davie, a poet, literary critic, and teacher, was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, England on 17 July 1922. His service in the Royal Navy during World War II, which sent him to Russia, sparked an interest in Russian literature; he later wrote his doctoral dissertation and other works on that subject, including Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature . Davie married Doreen John in 1945; they later had three children. He received his bachelor's degree in 1947 and his doctora...

Lesemann, Maurice, 1899-

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American poet and friend of Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Glenway Wescott, Pearl Andelson Sherry, Kathleen Foster Campbell, and Monroe Wheeler. From the description of Maurice Lesemann papers, 1918-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500156 Biographical Note : Maurice Lesemann Maurice Lesemann was born on November 28, 1899, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Dr. Louis F. W. Lesemann, a Methodist cl...

Fraser, John H.

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Epithet: of Glenvakie British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x000288 ...

Powell, Grosvenor, 1932-

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Bergsma, William, 1921-1994

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Composed 1942. First performance at the Thirteenth Annual Festival of American Music of the Eastman School of Music, by the Eastman School Little Symphony Orchestra, Rochester, N. Y., Apr. 14, 1943, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony : for chamber orchestra / William Bergsma. 1942. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43268092 Professor of music, University of Washington. William Bergsma served as director, S...

Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...

Sherry, Pearl Andelson

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Freis, Richard

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Edmunds, John C., 1947-

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Gullans, Charles B.

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Charles Bennett Gullans (1929-1993), poet and professor of English and creative writing. From the description of Charles B. Gullans papers, 1955-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85031576 Charles Bennett Gullans was born May 5, 1929 in Minneapolis, MN; BA (1948) and MA (1951), Univ. of Minnesota; Ph. D, Stanford, 1956; asst. professor of English, Univ. of Washington, 1955-61; taught English and creative writing at UCLA from 1961 until his death; founded Symposium Press in...

Lewis, Janet, 1899-1998

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American writer of many genres, including novels, short stories, poetry and librettos. Many of her friends and correspondents were at one time students or colleagues of Yvor Winters. From the description of Janet Lewis papers, 1964-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122639569 Biographical Note : Yvor Winters Yvor Winters was born in Chicago on October 17, 1900, the son of a stockbroker. As a very young child he moved we...

Daryush, Elizabeth Bridges

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Stanford, Anna

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Blaisdell, Gus

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Stanford, Donald E. (Donald Elwin), 1913-1998

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American poet and former editor of Southern Review. From the description of Donald E. Stanford papers, 1933-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510483 Donald E. Stanford (1913-1998) received his B.A. from Stanford University (1933), M.A. from Harvard University (1934), and Ph. D. from Stanford University (1953). He came to LSU in 1949 where he taught literature and helped revive and co-edit The Southern Review. From the description of Donald Stanford oral his...