Papers, 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970).

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Papers, 1932-1978 (bulk 1938-1970).

Correspondence, journal, literary file, subject file, family papers, and miscellany, relating to Hyman's activities as a literary critic and professor at Bennington College, and to his family and personal life. Literary file contains ms. drafts, notes, outlines, proofs, and reviews of Hyman's books as well as articles and book reviews he wrote for periodicals such as the New Leader, New Masses, New Republic, and New Yorker. Collection contains 111 letters, postcards, and telegrams, from Hyman's wife, author Shirley Jackson (1938-1942, 1951, and n.d.). Other correspondents include Renata Adler, Newton Arvin, John Barth, Maud Bodkin, Kenneth Burke, Joseph Campbell, Malcolm Cowley, Robert Creeley, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Empson, James T. Farrell, Francis Fergusson, Donald Finkel, Nat Hentoff, Randell Jarrell, Richard Kostelanetz, Frank Lentricchia, Bernard Malamud, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frank E. Orenstein, Thomas Pynchon, Lord Raglan, I.A. Richards, Thomas A. Sebeok, John Updike, and Jay Williams.

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