Jean Stafford papers, 1893-1992

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Jean Stafford papers, 1893-1992

The papers include holographic and typewritten notes and drafts, typescripts, early versions, revised versions, deleted versions, and final manuscripts of most of Jean Stafford's output. There are galleys, page-proofs, and tear-sheets as well as grammar school essays, diaries, journals, nearly 200 photographs, hundreds of letters, and her first Royal portable typewriter. The collection also includes a rapidly growing body of work by authors who have written about Jean Stafford.

33 linear ft. (63 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6938536

University of Colorado, Boulder

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University of Colorado Libraries. Special Collections Dept.

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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell

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American editor of the New Yorker and wife of E. B. White. From the description of Notes on galleys : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756222299 From the description of Time chart and style sheet : autograph notes related to The trumpet of the swan, undated [1968-1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756222271 ...

Thompson, Dorothy Jay, 19..-....

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Davis, Lambert, 1905-

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Jensen, Oliver, 1914-2005

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Editor, writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Oliver Ormerod Jensen : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739742 ...

Frichtel, Mary Lee, 1908-

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Goodman, Charlotte Margolis, 1934-

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Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979

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Jean Stafford was an American author, best known for her realistic and sublimely crafted short stories. Much of her fiction invoked classical literary themes, but viewed them through the perspective of an alienated, 20th century woman. Many of her stories reflected her own tumultuous, often melodramatic personal life. From the description of Jean Stafford correspondence with Henry W. Johnstone, 1969. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 55081876 Jea...

Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph), 1904-1963

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American journalist, who served as reporter and columnist for the New Yorker magazine from 1935-1963. From the description of A.J. Liebling collection, 1920-1963. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938896 ...

Giroux, Robert

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Writer, editor, publisher, most notably for 40 years as a partner in the the firm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Native of New Jersey, graduated with honors from Columbia University in 1936. Author of three books: The Education of an editor : the Bowker lectures for 1981; The Book known as Q : a study of Shakespeare's sonnets (1982); and A Deed of death : the story of an unsolved Hollywood murder (1990). Edited or wrote introductions for The Collected prose of Elizabeth B...

Honeycutt, Ann.

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American journalist. From the description of Ann Honeycutt letters, 1931-1985. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937108 ...

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 ...

Thompson, Paul V.

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Hightower, Robert

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