Literary papers and correspondence of Piers Paul Read. 1950s-2001.

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Literary papers and correspondence of Piers Paul Read. 1950s-2001.

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Manuscripts and typescripts of his novels (Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx, The Junkers, Monk Dawson, The Professor's Daughter, The Upstart, Polonaise, A Married Man, The Villa Golitsyn, The Free Frenchman, A Season in the West, On the Third Day, A Patriot in Berlin, Knights of the Cross, Alice in Exile), non-fiction (Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, The Train Robbers, Quo Vadis? The Subversion of the Catholic Church, Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl, The Templars, Alec Guinness), plays (Margaret Clitherow, Premeditated Murder, and others), articles, and short stories; extensive correspondence (with Herbert, Margaret and Benedict Read, Richard Adams, Martin Amis, Melvin Bragg, George Carey, Bonamy DobreĢŒ, Margaret Drabble, J.G. Farrell, Sebastian Faulks, E.M. Forster, Antonia Fraser, Anthony Holden, Basil Hume, Denise Levertov, Graham Greene, Alec Guinness, Derek Marlowe, John Mortimer, Andrew Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tom Stoppard, Julian Symons, Paul Theroux, Philip Toynbee, Auberon Waugh, Hugo Young, Anna Wintour, A.N. Wilson, and many others); interview tapes; research notes; press-cuttings and other papers.

139 boxes, manuscript, typescript, printed material, and audio tapes.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed and autograph postal card signed : Petersfield, to Denys Blakelock, 1958 Dec. 10 and [1959] Sept. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870929 Access to the archive was provided to Piers Paul Read who wrote the authorised biography of Alec Guinness. Therefore the archive, to some extent, has been arranged and information has been collected and added by Read. The impact of his use of the archive is most noticeable...