Papers of Jay Sigmund, 1911-1975.

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962

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Poet. Married Una Call Kuster in 1913. From the description of Papers of Robinson Jeffers, 1924-1941 (bulk 1924-1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130961 Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was an American poet and dramatist. Born in Pittsburgh in 1887, he graduated from Occidental College in 1905. He married Una Call Jeffers (1884-1950) in 1913, and they had three children. His inspiration came from his wife, their home that he built in 1919, Tor House, and the rugged Big Sur...

Stuart, Jesse, 1906-1984

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Jesse Stuart was a famous Kentucky novelist, short-story writer, poet, and teacher. From the description of Broadside, ca. 1950. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49342685 Chuck Hand, antiques dealer and teacher, was a personal friend of Jesse Stuart. His interest in Jesse Stuart began in 1966. He earned an MA in geography from EIU in 1973 and taught in Paris, IL from 1967-1999. Chuck became a rare book dealer in 1989, specializing in Abraham Lincoln. ...

Kresensky, Raymond, 1897-1955

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Author, newspaper editor. From the description of Letter to Maurice Hanline, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349777 American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the guide to the Sherwood Anderson miscellany, 1981, undated, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Author. From the description of Death in the woods : annotated short story, circa 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Foerster, Norman, 1887-1972

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Foerster was professor of English at the University of North Carolina, professor of English and director of the School of Letters at the University of Iowa, prominent New Humanist, and author of books on American literature and higher education; d. 1972. From the description of Papers of Norman Foerster, 1930-1971 (bulk 1930-1944). (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233113536 Author and editor. Foerster was also a professor and a proponent of the New Humanis...

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

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African American poet, critic, and editor; b. William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite. From the description of Papers, 1878-1962. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70956095 From the description of William Stanley Braithwaite collection, 1899-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965233 Braithwaite was an African-American poet, literary critic, and editor. He wrote reviews and criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript . From 1913 to 1929 he...

Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berkeley, California, to Frank Deering, 1919 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131470 Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968. From the description of Witter Bynner papers, 1917-1943. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35920677 American poet and sc...

Sterling, George, 1896-1926.

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Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975

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English professor, author, founder and editor of The Midland. From the description of Papers of John Towner Frederick, 1908-1975. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233105040 John T. Frederick gained wide renown as a radio book critic, literary critic, author and educator. In 1937 Frederick conducted a weekly book review program, Of Men and Books, sponsored by Northwestern University. Frederick taught at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalis...

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945

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Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945), American poet and collector of Japanese prints. His works include Sonnets of a Portrait Painter(1914), Chats on Japanese Prints (1915), Out of Silence and Other Poems (1924), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, (1939), a novel. From the description of Arthur Davison Ficke Papers 1865-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134010 Ficke (Harvard, A.B., 1904) served as Curator of Japanese Prints at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. From the d...

Boyd, W. R. (William Robert), 1864-1950

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Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977

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Louis Untermeyer was a noted author, editor, and translator. His tastes were eclectic, and his friendships many; he produced more than one hundred books, and volumes of letters. His numerous poetry anthologies have helped introduce verse to generations of schoolchildren. From the description of Heinrich Heine, paradox and poet, 1936. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 56550722 From the description of Louis Untermeyer letter to Judith Wright McKinn...

Smith, Betty, 1896-1972

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American author. From the description of Letter to Walter Prichard Eaton, Sheffield, Massachusetts [manuscript], 1943 June 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817380 Betty Smith (1896-1972), novelist and playwright of Brooklyn, N.Y., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Chapel Hill, N.C.; author of "A tree grows in Brooklyn" (1943); "Tomorrow will be better" (1948), "Maggie-now" (1958), and "Joy in the morning" (1963). She was married successively to George H. E. Smith, Jos...

Brigham, Johnson, 1846-1936

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O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1890-1941

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Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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Blunden was an English poet and scholar. From the description of Edmund Blunden papers, 1921-1952 (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612727624 Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher. His highly acclaimed biography of Shelley was published in 1946. From the description of Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1945-1955 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76945001 From the guide to the Edmund Blunden manuscript ma...

Quick, Herbert, 1861-1925

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Mott, Frank Luther, 1886-1964

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English and journalism professor, dean and author. From the description of Papers of Frank Luther Mott, 1918-1963. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233135576 ...

Hammill, John, 1875-1936

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Sarett, Lew, 1888-1954

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American author, lecturer, professor of speech at Northwestern University. From the description of Papers of Lew Sarett, 1923-1927. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55771782 From the description of Letter to DeVere Allen, 1926 December 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56526965 English professor, lecturer, and poet. From the description of Correspondence, 1921-1941. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23311937...

Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939

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American novelist and humorist. From the description of Papers of Opie Percival Read [manuscript], 1885-1917. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817281 Opie Percival Read was an American author and journalist, best known for his humorous novels. Born and raised in Tennessee, he apprenticed with a newspaper and attended Neophagen College, later travelling around the country before settling in Chicago in 1887. He worked as a journalist and typesetter, before foun...

Bach, Marcus, 1906-

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Dr. Marcus Bach noted philosopher, teacher, ordained minister, author and lecturer, devoted a lifetime to increasing understanding and appreciation of diverse philosophical and religious perspectives until his death at age 93 on March 26, 1995. He was familiar with the strength and challenges facing all religions and cultures. He was born into a Protestant family on December 15, 1901 and grew up in Sauk City, Wisconsin, surrounded by religious revivals and rivalry. As a boy he could not understa...

Hall, James Norman, 1887-1951

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Hall was a noted Iowa author and 1910 graduate of Grinnell College. After serving in World War I Hall moved to Tahiti and began his literary partnership with Nordhoff. From the description of James Norman Hall papers, 1906-1954. (Oglesby Public Library District). WorldCat record id: 38313128 American writer best known for his collaboration with Charles Nordhoff on The Bounty Trilogy. From the description of Letters, 1927-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 12260...

Suckow, Ruth, 1892-1960

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Author and pacifist. From the description of Papers of Ruth Suckow, 1887-1988. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233105070 Author Ruth Suckow was born in Iowa and moved to Denver, Colo. to join her sister Emma (.d 1923) who had moved to Denver to seek relief from tuberculosis. Suckow graduated from the University of Denver, earning a B.A. degree (English) in 1917 and an M.A. in 1918. She worked as a graduate assistant for Dr. Ida Kruse McFarlane, head of th...

Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936

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Managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, novelist, and author of several books on Chicago history. From the description of Henry Justin Smith papers, 1912-1980, bulk 1912-1935. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 187966637 In September of 1924, Henry Justin Smith was appointed Assistant to the President of the University. He came to the University after some twelve years with the Chicago Daily News, and left again in 1926 to become its Managing Editor. During his time ...

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

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Carl Van Vechten was an American novelist, critic, essayist, book collector, and photographer. From the description of Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1922-1964. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455166 From the guide to the Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1911-1964, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American photographer, writer,...

Piper, Edwin Ford, 1871-1939

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Edwin Ford Piper was born in 1871 in Auburn, Nebraska, a few miles west of the Missouri River. As farmers moved in and rangeland disappeared, his family moved farther west in Nebraska. While he was growing up, he listened to the songs, rhymes, square dancing calls, prayer meeting calls of the hired hands, hobos, itinerant fiddlers -- anyone who created music. He also learned songs from his mother Lucinda and his sister Ella. These folk expressions had a great effect upon Piper. In 1893, he enter...

Finger, Charles Joseph, 1869-1941

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Finger was born in Sussex, England and attended Kings College, London. He became an authority on Wagner, Chopin and Greig. He wrote children's books as well as short stories for H.L. Mencken's, Smart Set and The Century. From the description of Conrad and his style: typescript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155181120 U.S. editor (Reedy's Mirror and All's Well), writer, music school director, and railroad employee; best known for two collections of folk tales. ...

Marshall, Verne, 1889-1965

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Verne Marshall (1889-1965), journalist, was a volunteer ambulance driver in the French Army in 1916, and a Liberty Bond Drive speaker in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1918. From 1919 to 1941 he was the managing editor and editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. He served as organizer and chairman of the No Foreign War Committee from 1940 to 1941, and from 1953 to 1957, worked as a columnist for the Marion (Iowa) Sentinel. From the description of Marshall, Verne, 1889-1965 (U.S. National Arc...

Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977

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American author, editor, and journalist. From the description of Typed letters signed (3) : New York World-Telegram, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1936 Jan. 14, 1946 Oct. 3, and 1948 July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868099 Writer, literary critic, and editor. From the description of Papers, 1914-1976. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248177 Author and editor; d. 1977. From the description of Papers, 1926-197...

Sigmund, Jay G., 1885-1937

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Author, poet, and insurance agent. From the description of Papers of Jay Sigmund, 1911-1975. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233105086 Author, of Iowa. From the description of Papers, 1911-1975. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28410559 ...

Farran, Don, 1902-

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Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944

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American poet, translator of Beowulf, scholar and English professor From the description of William E. Leonard papers [manuscript], 1920-1929. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 231753963 American poet and literary scholar William Ellery Leonard (1876-1944) taught English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Edna Davis Romig (b. 1889) was a professor of English for 36 years, most of them spent at the University of Colorado at Boulder. ...

Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966

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Alfred Kreymborg was born in New York, grew up on the Lower East Side and later lived in Greenwich Village. He was a frequent contributor to "little" magazines and had frequent collections of his poetry published between 1916 and 1950. He also wrote plays, radio dramas, several novels, and an autobiography. From the description of Alfred Kreymborg letter and poem to Dear old Harry, 1928. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 64582069 ...

Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946

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Art administrator. Established the Community Art Center in Cedar Rapids; developed and operated the Little Gallery in Cedar Rapids. With his friend Grant Wood laid the groundwork for the Stone City Art Colony. From the description of Papers of Edward Beatty Rowan. [1920?-1946?] (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 274319575 Gallery director, painter, sculptor, teacher; Falls Church, Va. and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Founder and director of T...

Schramm, Wilbur, 1907-1987

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Schramm was professor of English, first director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and director of the School of Journalism at the University of Iowa; dean or director of communications programs at the University of Illinois, Stanford University, and the East-West Center, University of Hawaii; d. 1987. From the description of Papers of Wilbur Schramm, 1936-1949. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233118799 ...

Peterkin, Julia Mood, 1880-1961

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American author. From the description of Papers of Julia Mood Peterkin [manuscript], 1927-1931. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647870333 From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Lang Syne Plantation, Fort Motte, S.C., and New York, to Stark Young, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872100 Julia Mood Peterkin was a South Carolina novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for her novel, Scarlet Sister Mary, which was later adapte...

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American author, editor and poet. He won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. From the guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection, 1924-1954, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) American poet, novelist and historian, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Abraham Lincoln: the War Years and the other for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg ...