Collection of materials relating to Frederic Prokosch, ca. 1929-1965.

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Collection of materials relating to Frederic Prokosch, ca. 1929-1965.

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Collection consists of 35 letters from Prokosch to Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 6 letters to Ben Abramson, manuscripts, and a bibliography of Prokosch compiled at UCLA for a course in bibliography. Manuscripts consist of a one-page typescript, The lonely unicorn; a typescript collection of poems, Death in autumn (1929); and Cupid's whirligig, and Hecate's house (1930), a collection of tales with twelve illustrations hand-drawn and hand-colored by Prokosch.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7427083

University of California, Los Angeles

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Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989

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Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989), poet and novelist, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on 17 May 1908. He spent his childhood in the United States, Germany, France and Austria, and attended Haverford College and Yale. His most famous work is his first novel, The Asiatics (1935). He also wrote poetry, translations and an autobiography. From the early 1930s, Prokosch printed copies of his own work and that of other writers. He was involved in a forgery scandal following the Sotheby's sale of his pamphl...