Madison Jones papers, 1950-1989.

Morris, Wright, 1910-1998

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Long regarded as one of America's most gifted writers, Wright Morris authored over thirty-three books. He was born in Central City, Nebraska, on 6 January 1910. His novel, A Field of Vision, won the National Book Award in 1957, and Plains Song won the 1981 American Book Award for Fiction. In addition to his novels, he is the author of a number of photo-text books, books of criticism, and several collections of short stories. He taught English at San Francisco State College, and he and his wife, ...

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...

Bell, Madison Smart, 1957-

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Madison Smartt Bell (Princeton Class of 1979) is a native of Nashville, Tenn. His parents were friends with such writers of the Agrarian Group as Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Madison Jones, leading Bell to specialize in the Agrarians while at Princeton University. He received his M.A. (1981) from Hollins College, Va., and later, after living and working in New York City, Bell consciously moved away from the southern influences in his writings. He then settled in Baltimo...

Spears, Monroe Kirklyndorf.

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Cheney, Brainard, 1900-1990

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Writer, journalist, and editor. Born June 3, 1900, in Fitzgerald, Ga. Educated at The Citadel, the University of Georgia, and Vanderbilt University. Police reporter and member of the editorial staff for the Nashville Banner, 1925-42; executive secretary to U.S. Senator Tom Stewart of Tennessee, 1942-45; self-employed writer and editor, 1945-52; member of the public relations staff of Tennessee Governor Frank Clement, 1952-58. Author of four novels, two plays, and various short stories and articl...

Napier, John Hawkins, 1925-

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Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013

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Papers of Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., of Chapel Hill, N.C., educator, literary critic, scholar, novelist, journalist, editor, and publisher. Rubin was professor of English at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. From the description of Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945- (Series 1.1.1 D-H) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 31069813 From the description of Louis Decimus Rubin papers, 1945- WorldCat reco...

Feldman, Irving, 1928-...

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Watkins, Floyd C.

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Floyd C. Watkins was born 19 April 1920, and grew up in Ball Ground, Ga. He attended Georgia Southern College (B.S., 1946), Emory University (M.A., 1947), and Vanderbilt University (Ph. D., 1952). Watkins began his teaching career at Emory in 1949, and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Literature. He is the author of more than one hundred books and articles primarily about Southern authors, Southern literature, and life in the South. From the description of Floyd...

Simmonds, Roy S.

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Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995

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Andrew Nelson Lytle (Dec. 26, 1902-Dec. 12, 1995) was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and graduated from Vanderbilt University. He was a novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature. As a member of the Agrarians, he contributed a chapter to that group's manifesto, I'll take my stand. He taught at the University of the South and edited the Sewanee review. Among his greatest works are Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company, a biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest; The velvet horn, a ...

Liddell, Viola Goode, 1901-

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Author; native of Wilcox County, Ala.; b. 1901; d. 1998. From the description of Viola Goode Liddell collection, 1951-2004. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 54481495 ...

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990

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William Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambilavent about his decision to enter secular life. Walsh was at a personal crossroads when he read Lancelot, trying to determine his future. Having also been impressed by Percy's earlier writings, particularly The Message in the Bottle, he believed that Percy could be a source of guidance. As it turned out, Walsh and Percy never met in person and they spoke ...

Hargraves, Michael

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Doubleday and Company, inc.

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Biographical Note 1906, Feb. 25 Born, Madison, N.J. 1928 A.B., Willamette University,Salem, Oreg. 1930 Clerk, Doubleday & Co.'s Pennsylvania Station bookstore, New York, N.Y. 1934 ...

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994

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American scholar and writer; professor of English at Louisiana State University and Yale University. From the description of Cleanth Brooks letter, 1984 Dec. 21. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243464696 Louisiana State University English professor, and co-founder of Southern Review, a literary journal. From the description of Cleanth Brooks oral history interview, 1992. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244443354 Cleant...

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979

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Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and translator. From the description of Allen Tate collection of papers, 1935-1971. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652060 From the guide to the Allen Tate collection of papers, 1935-1971, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) John Orley Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky, in 1899. He atte...

West, Jessamyn, 1968-....

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Peabody, George

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Hall, James B. (James Byron), 1918-2008

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Hagemann, E. R. (Edward R.), 1921-

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Edward R. Hagemann taught in the English department at UCLA; his published works include A comprehensive index to Black Mask, 1920-1951 : with brief annotations, preface, and editorial apparatus (c1982) and German and Austrian expressionism in the United States, 1900-1939 : chronology and bibliography (1985). From the description of Papers, 1982. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39710143 From the description of Papers and collection of detective f...

Walsh, Bill, 1918-1976

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Manfred, Frederick Feikema, 1912-1994

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American author. First critically acclaimed novel published in 1944. The majority of his stories and novels are set in the region he named "Siouxland", an area bordering the Sioux River in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa. Frederick Manfred died September 7, 1994. From the description of Frederick Manfred papers, 1912-1994. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62685104 Frederick Manfred was born Frederick Feikema on January 6, 1912 on a far...

Rosenthal, M.L. (Macha Louis), 1917-1996

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Macha Louis Rosenthal (1917-1996), poet, critic, editor, and teacher, was born in Washington, D. C. With an M.A. from the University of Chicago, he came to New York University where he earned his Ph.D. (1949) and was a professor of English until 1996. He also served as director of the Poetics Institute at NYU. Besides publishing numerous books of criticism, collections of verse and contributing poetry, articles and reviews to The New Yorker, Poetry, and the Spectator, he served in the U.S. Cultu...

Patrick, James, 1933-....

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Gray, Richard J. (Richard James), 1943-

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Paschall, Douglas, 1944-

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Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994

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Peter Hillsman Taylor was a prize-winning American author, known for his stylish novels and short stories of the American South. Born in Tennessee, Taylor's family travelled throughout the South during his youth, and he credits these experiences with inspiring his later writing. He enrolled at Rhodes College, where Allen Tate urged him to transfer to Vanderbilt to study under John Crowe Ransom; he later followed Ransom to Kenyon College, along with Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. He garnered ...

Styron, William, 1925-2006

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American novelist William Styron was born in Virginia and graduated from Duke. After serving in World War II, he worked as an editor while writing his first novel. His work has been both controversial and timely; his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, explored the theme of slavery, and benefitted from being released during the racially-charged 1960s, and his American Book Award-winning novel, Sophie's Choice, examined a World War II concentration camp survivor. His styl...

Harcourt Brace & Company

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Gross was an editor at the publishing company. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1957. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863411 Brooks edited a book by Constance Rourke for Harcourt Brace. From the description of Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1921-1962. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 180851633 ...

Bensko, John, 1949-

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Parrill, William.

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Slavick, William H.

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Lee, Harper, 1926-2016

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Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, on 28 April 1926, to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Lee. Harper Lee graduated from Monroe County High School, Monroe County Alabama, and later attended Huntingdon College, the University of Alabama, and Oxford University. In 1960, her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published. In 1961, one year following its initial publication, To Kill a Mockingbird received a Pulitzer Prize for fiction....

Crown Publishers

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Wilder was the signer of the letter from Crown Publishers. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1957. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863108 Crown Publishers is a New York City-based publishing company that was established in 1933. In 1986, under its imprint Harmony Books, Crown Publishers, published When Brooklyn Was the World by Elliot Willensky. In 1988, Crown Publishing Group, whose imprints included Crown Publi...

Gretlund, Jan Nordby.

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Brown, Ashley C

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Brooker, Jewel Spears, 1940-....

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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Crews, Harry, 1935-2012

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Harry Crews is a prolific novelist whose often freakish characters populate a strange, violent, and darkly humorous South. He is also the author of a widely lauded memoir, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, about growing up poor in rural south Georgia. Crews has focused much of his work on the poor white South, influencing a growing number of younger writers to do the same, including Larry Brown and Tim McLaurin. Harry Eugene Crews was born in Bacon County on June 7, 1935, the second of two ...

Vauthier, Simone

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Howard, Gene L., 1940-

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Cobb, William, 1937-

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Dickey, James Ronald, 1934-

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American poet; b. 1923. From the description of Papers, 1954-1970. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 26089516 Poet and author. Born 1923. From the description of May Day sermon to the women of Gilmer County, Georgia ... : corrected typescript, circa 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132470 James Dickey, (1923-1997), American poet and novelist. From the description of James Dickey papers, circa 1924-1997 (bulk 1961...

Chappell, Fred, 1936-....

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Author and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. From the description of Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2010 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19465036 From the description of Fred Chappell Papers, 1944-2003 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122569745 Fred Chappell is a poet and an author who has won numerous awards for his writings, including the Rockefeller Foundation Grant;...

Humphries, Jefferson, 1955-....

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O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964

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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia-d. August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), Southern American novelist and short story writer, the daughter of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She attended parochial schools in Savannah before moving to Milledgeville after the death of her father in 1941. After finishing high school in Milledgeville, she attended the Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College and State Univers...

Havighurst, Walter, 1901-1994

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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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American editor and writer. From the description of Letter to Matthew Bruccoli [manuscript], 1975 December 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812058 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1969. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810601 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874698 Malcolm Cowley was an influential liter...

Watson, Sterling

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Forkner, Ben

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Fabre, Michel

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Michel and Genevieve Fabre founded the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of Paris, and have been leading scholars of African American culture in France. Michel Fabre is the foremost biographer of Richard Wright, and intimately fimiliar with the Wright family and with African American artists, writers, and musicians throughout Europe. Genevieve Fabre is a scholar of African-American theater and literature, and co-chaired the first Harvard University Du Bois Institute Working Grou...

Sanguinetti, Elise

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Elise Ayers Sanguinetti was born January 26, 1926 in Anniston, Alabama, the daughter of Harry Mell and Edel (Ytterboe) Ayers. She attended Ashley Hall, a boarding prepartory school in Charleston, South Carolina before attending one year at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota followed by a summer session at the University of Oslo (Norway). She received her A.B. degree from the University of Alabama in 1946. In 1950 she married Phillip A. Sanguinetti, a chemical engineer from Norfolk, Virgin...

Davidson, Donald, 1893-1968

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Author, poet, teacher, and editor. Member of the Fugitive and Agrarian Groups. From the description of Donald Davidson Papers, 1917-1968. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 17789409 ...

Barnett, Rick

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Jones, Madison, 1925-

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Madison Percy Jones, Jr., author and educator, was born 21 March 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee. As an educator, Jones taught English at Miami University (1953-1954), University of Tennessee in Knoxville (1955-1956), and Auburn University (1956- ) where he also taught Creative Writing. He is the author of eight published novels, several short stories, and articles. From the description of Madison Jones papers, 1950-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863058 ...

Cox, Elizabeth, 1942-

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Francis, H. E. (Herbert Edward), 1924-

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Viking Press.

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Huebsch was vice president and chief editor at Viking Press in New York City. Viking became the publisher of Franz Werfel's works in English translation around 1935. Griesser was at Viking Press and wrote on Huebsch's behalf. Medinz was in the copyright dept. at Viking. McClure, Allen and Bradette all wrote letters to Viking Press concerning Werfel's novel The Song of Bernadette: McClure wrote a fan letter with a question that Huebsch forwarded to Werfel; Allen was requesting permission for use ...

Yoken, Melvin B.

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Fitzgerald, Sally

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Sally Fitzgerald (1917-2000) was a writer and editor of several volumes of Flannery O'Connor's letters and works. Sally and her husband, Robert Fitzgerald, met Flannery O'Connor in 1949, while O'Connor was finishing a fellowship at the Yaddo Community in New York. O'Connor then lived with the Fitzgeralds in Connecticut while writing her first novel, WISE BLOOD. In 1969, the Fitzgeralds co-edited MYSTERY AND MANNERS: OCCASIONAL PROSE OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Sally then embarked on the project of com...

Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

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Author b. 1899, John Wesley, in coal mining camp near Moberly, Mo.; proletarian writer of the 30's, activist involved in labor unions and worker's rights. Published in Northern Lights and New Masses; gained recognition with Disinherited. From the description of Papers, 1947-1981. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 13347087 Poet, editor of The Spider. From the description of Letters, to Joseph A. Labadie, 1924-1928. (University of Michigan). World...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Press

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LSU Press was first organized in 1931 to publish a modest series of graduate studies and became an autonomous department of the university in 1935 as a nonprofit book publisher dedicated to the publication of scholarly, general interest, and regional books. It is the only university press to have won a Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry and is perhaps most widely recognized as the original publisher of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980). Thro...

Cole, Roger, 1922-

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Emerson, O.B.

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O.B. Emerson was a professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1946 to 1986. He graduated with his M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He taught courses in American literature, Southern literature, and Afro-American literature. He received the Outstanding Professor Award, chosen by the student body, in 1965, and the National Alumni Association’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award in 1980. Emerson retired from the University in 1986 and died in 1990. From the g...