Collection on Amy Clampitt, 1938-1998.

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Collection on Amy Clampitt, 1938-1998.

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Amy Clampitt worked as a librarian, freelance editor, and writer who achieved critical acclaim beginning in the 1980s. This collection show Clampitt's evolution as a writer and consists of two boxes of periodicals, proof copies, and sound recordings of Clampitt's work.

4 boxes (4 linear feet)

Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Clampitt, Amy, 1920-1994

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Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editor. Not until the mid...