Michael Shaara papers, 1946-1998.

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Michael Shaara papers, 1946-1998.

The contents of the Michael Shaara papers date from 1946 to 1998 and include materials that Shaara created, received or collected during his lifetime (1929-1988). After the author's death, his family placed additional monographs, serials, printed materials, and a videocassette with his papers. The archive contains manuscripts; correspondence; items relating to Shaara's professional life and awards; his teaching and lecturing engagements; legal and financial records; some personal materials; newspaper and magazine clippings; print material; serials; manuscripts written by other individuals; audio-visual materials; and photographs.

10.5 linear ft. (14 boxes)

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Shaara, Michael

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Michael Shaara was born on June 23, 1929 in Jersey City, N.J., and died on May 5, 1988 in Tallahassee, Florida. He was a writer and professor of English at Florida State University. His early fiction was published in numerous fantasy and science fiction magazines. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Shaara broadened his focus to include mainstream fiction and began publishing his work in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and the Saturday Evening Post. Shaara wrote four novels: The Broken Place, (1968); The ...