Correspondence with Theodore, Helen, and Vera Dreiser, 1928-1972.

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Correspondence with Theodore, Helen, and Vera Dreiser, 1928-1972.

One item postdating the death of Helen Dreiser is sent to Neda Westlake. This correspondence also contains items sent to Donald Elder, Doubleday, concerning Harris's work on The Bulwark.

105 items (234 leaves).

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Elder, Donald B.

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Donald Elder, editor and writer, was born on April 15, 1913, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Niles, Michigan. In 1935 he received his undergraduate degree from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. While a student at Michigan, Mr. Elder won the freshman literature contest of 1932; the Avery Hopwood Award for creative writing in 1933 for sketches entitled Railroad Men ; and a major fiction award in 1935. In 1935, he began his career as a...

Westlake, Neda M.

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Harris, Marguerite Tjader, 1901-1986

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Marguerite Tjader was born Nov. 24, 1901 in New York City, the daughter of Richard Tjader, a big game hunter, explorer, and evangelist, and Margaret (Thorne) Tjader, daughter of the financier Samuel Thorne. She attended Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University, where she received the A.B. degree in 1925. Her marriage to Overton Harris ended in divorce in 1933. Their son, Hilary (1929-1999), became a documentary filmmaker, receiving an Oscar in 1962 for his direction of 'Seaward the great ships'...