Papers ca. 1931-1986.

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Papers ca. 1931-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320039377

Collection consists of scrapbooks, letters and ephemera related to the career of film critic Otis Ferguson. Also includes notes and correspondence related to Dorothy Chamberlain. The collection may have been assembled by Dorothy Chamberlain after Ferguson's death for her book project, The Otis Ferguson reader, c1982.

3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7332901

University of California, Los Angeles

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Chamberlain, Dorothy.

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Ferguson, Otis, 1907-1943

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Otis Ferguson was born in Worcester, MA, Aug. 14, 1907; joined the Navy at the age of 17 and served four years; he graduated from Clark Univ. (1933), where he was senior class poet and editor of the yearbook; Ferguson was hired at The New Republic where he eventually became an asst. editor; he reviewed books, films, and sometimes theater (1933-1941); in 1936 he started writing about music, particularly big swing bands and loaned his title to Dorothy Bakers novel, Young man with a horn; he was se...