Akins-Jannay Collection, 1920-1992.

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Akins-Jannay Collection, 1920-1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/352893704

The collection consists of manuscripts by Zoë Akins, and other Akins family members, a few pieces of correspondence, a photographic album, drawings and ephemera.

25 pieces.4 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 7371530

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Akins, Zoë (1886-1958).

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Zoë Akins (1886-1958) was a dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter. Born in Missouri, Akins wrote plays for the better part of two decades before she moved to California in 1928 and worked as a screenwriter under contract to Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She won the Pulitzer prize for her play, The old maid (1936), which she adapted from the story by Edith Wharton. From the description of Papers of Zoë Akins, 1907-1951. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical ...