Records, 1969-1974.

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Records, 1969-1974.

Material from the editorial office files of The Atlantic (Boston, Mass.), under the editorship of Robert Manning, from 1969 to 1974. Mostly original or carbons of correspondence to, from, and about approximately 3200 authors, journalists, and scholars regarding publication of their work in the magazine. Also, office memos commenting on submitted manuscripts, miscellaneous clippings, and some personal correspondence of editors, including Edward Weeks. Correspondents include Saul Bellow, Catherine D. Bowen, Robert Coles, Elizabeth Drew, John G. Dunne, Richard Eberhart, Frances Fitzgerald, Jesse H. Ford, John K. Galbraith, Herbert Gold, Robert Graves, Richard Herrnstein, George V. Higgins, Ward Just, Alfred Kazin, Louis Kronenberger, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Robert Manning, James A. McPherson, Jessica Mitford, Samuel E. Morison, Joyce C. Oates, Arthur Schlesinger, Wildred Sheed, Edward Sorel, Ross Terrill, John Updike, Robert P. Warren, and Edward Weeks.

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Weeks, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1898-1989

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Edward A. Weeks (1898-1989) was an author, essayist, and editor for the Atlantic Monthly . He was also author of more than 10 books, including: Breaking into Print: an Editor's Advice on Writing (1962); In Friendly Candor [1959]; and Writers and Friends (1981). Weeks opposed censorship and, during the 1920's, served as chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Reform Book Censorship. From the guide to the Edward Weeks Letter to Mrs. Henry Pettit (MS 235), 16 June 1961...

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), Jr., 1917-2007

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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 an...

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998

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Epithet: Professor of English British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002f8 American writer, literary critic and memoirist; author of "On native grounds," and "A walk in the city." From the description of Alfred Kazin letter [manuscript], 1943 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999332 Writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred Kazin: oral h...

Updike, John

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American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006

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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...

Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005

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Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...

Gold, Herbert, 1924-

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American novelist & essayist. From the description of Herbert Gold papers, 1951-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 470399985 American novelist, essayist, and editor. From the description of Papers of Herbert Gold, ca. 1959. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34567158 American author. From the description of Letters, 1969-1979, to Robie Macauley [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Fitzgerald, Frances (1940- ).

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American journalist, author, and visiting professor at various universities. From the description of Frances FitzGerald collection, 1968-2000. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70963173 ...

Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003

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American author. From the description of John Gregory Dunne papers, 1969-[on-going]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122514577 Dunne was born on May 25, 1932 in Hartford, CT; AB, Princeton Univ., 1954; became an author, writing novels, non-fiction and with wife Joan Didion, several screenplays, including: Panic in Needle Park (1971), Play it as it lays (1972), and with others, A star is born (1976); his novels include: Vegas : a memoir of a dark sea...

Bellow, Saul

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Saul Bellow (1915-2005), novelist. From the description of Saul Bellow drafts of nobel lecture, 1976-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702194195 Author Saul Bellow was born in Montreal to Russian emigre parents; when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where Bellow was educated at the University of Chicago and Northwestern in Sociology and Anthropology. He began writing novels, and gradually built a respected body of work that saw him recognized as one of the most c...

Coles, Robert.

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Time magazine has called Robert Coles the most influential living psychiatrist in the U.S. Though best known for his work on children, he is also a leading authority on poverty and racial discrimination in the country. He first won recognition for his studies of black children in the South. From these, he has gone on to observe and write about children of other minorities (Native Americans, Inuit, and Chicanos) and in other stressful or disadvantaged situations (migrant camps, ghett...

Malamud, Bernard

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Novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 and raised in Brooklyn. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his heritage would play a key role in his development as a writer. He was also influenced by growing up during the the Depression and by 19th-century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville. His bittersweet, tragicomic stories often merge reality and fantasy, and explore the human condition through themes of suffering and moral obligation. His work has won many ...

Sheed, Wilfred, 1930-

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Just, Ward S.

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Author Ward Just was born in Indiana, the son and grandson of newspaper publishers. He worked as a reporter in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., including stints at Newsweek and the Washington Post. While covering the Vietnam War for the Post he was seriously wounded, and received a sabbatical to write of his experiences. He gradually made the transition from journalism to fiction, and has produced an impressive string of realistic, detailed, well-observed novels about American politics a...

Mailer, Norman

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American writer. From the description of Letters to Theodore S. Amussen [manuscript], [ca. 1948?]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823381 Norman Mailer was an American author and celebrity, admired for his novels and social commentary, and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Mailer became interested in writing while studying aeronautical engineering at Harvard. He served in World War II, which led to the acclai...

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...

Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996

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Anglo-American memoirist, social commentator, journalist and author. From the description of Papers, 1949-1973 (bulk 1961-1973). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122452906 Jessica Mitford, a.k.a. Decca, was a writer and one of the famous Mitford sisters, daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale. Her books include two autobiographies: Daughters and rebels and A fine old conflict. Her many investigative works inclu...

Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980

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Louis Kronenberger was an American critic, novelist, and biographer. From 1938-1961 he served as the drama critic for Time magazine. From the description of Louis Kronenberger Papers, 1940-1980. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 739404623 ...

Drew, Elizabeth, 1935-

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Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

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Robert (Von Ranke) Graves was born in London in 1895. He attended King's College School and Rokeby School, Wimbledon, Copthorne School, Sussex, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, 1907-14. In 1926, he received a B. Litt. From St. John's College, Oxford. He was the author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, autobiographies, historical novels, essays, librettos, criticism, short stories, and children’s books. Graves also translated and edited a number of works. He died in 1985 in Deya, Majorca, Sp...

Ford, Jesse Hill, 1940-

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Terrill, Ross

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McPherson, James Alan, 1943-....

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Morison, Samuel Eliot

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Morison graduated from Harvard in 1908 and taught American history at Harvard. From the description of Course material for History 161b, the discovery of America, 1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512193 Morison earned his Harvard AB in 1908, his Harvard AM in 1909, and his Harvard PhD in 1912. He taught history at Harvard. From the description of Notes in English 28, second half year, 1904-1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074686...

Atlantic (Firm : Boston, Mass.)

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Higgins, George V., 1939-1999

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Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1897-1973

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Author and biographer. From the description of Catherine Drinker Bowen papers, 1793-1980 (bulk 1934-1972). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062023 American writer. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Bryn Mawr, Pa., 9 November 1961, to Mr. [Joseph] Chouinard, 1961 Nov. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906443 Biographical Note 1897, Jan. 1 ...

Herrnstein, Richard J.

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Manning, Robert, 1919-

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Robert Manning, a career journalist, was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs 1962-1964, and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly 1966-1980. From the description of Robert Manning papers, 1938-1993. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205516 The journalist Robert Manning (1919- ) began his career on the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press ; then after military service was a correspondent for the United Press (1944-1949), and Time magazine (1948-1958)....

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-....

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As the winner of the National Book Award for her 1970 novel Them and the recipient of four O. Henry awards and numerous other literary prizes, Joyce Carol Oates is among the most distinguished writers in the United States. In her considerable body of work, she has created an array of male and female protagonists from a diversity of regional, economic, and occupational backgrounds. In the four decades since her first book, the short-story collection By the North Gate, appeared to critical acclaim...

Sorel, Edward, 1929-

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Edward Sorel (born Schwartz) was born March 26, 1929, in The Bronx, NY. As an artist he has received numerous awards and honors. He is a political cartoonist and children's book illustrator, and has published a number of self-illustrated children's books. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vols. 37, 65, 126. From the description of Edward Sorel Papers 1958-1969. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 471786594 Edward Sorel (bo...