Vincent Godfrey Burns papers. [manuscript]. 1939-1969.

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Vincent Godfrey Burns papers. [manuscript]. 1939-1969.

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Author, Poet Laureate of Maryland, and recipient of the Freedoms Foundation medal. The Burns collection consists of brochures and promotional literature; a collection of poems; 6 volumes of Rainbow poetry magazine; newspaper clippings; manuscripts for World on fire, and Ballads of the free state bard; and galley proofs for The man who broke a thousand chains.

0.5 ft. (1 Box).

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Burns, Vincent Godfrey, 1893-

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Vincent Godfrey Burns, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1893, was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1962 until his death in 1979. He was ordained as a minister and later published poems, television scripts, plays, and a novel, often expressing his conservative political and religious convictions. He and his brother Robert collaborated on I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, which was made into a movie in 1932. Burns's papers include correspondence, poems, manuscripts, galleys, newspaper clippin...

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The Pennsylvania Humanities Council designated the year 1985 as "The Year of the Pennsylvania Writer." The PHC funded projects in eight locations throughout the Commonwealth to gain appreciation, understanding, and recognition for past and present Pennsylvania writers. The State College/University Park location held a two-stage conference and related events by five Centre County regional organizations. From the description of The Year of the Pennsylvania writer collection, 1984-1986....