Belle Randall collection of Thom Gunn letters, 1960-2006.

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Belle Randall collection of Thom Gunn letters, 1960-2006.

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Letters to Belle Randall from noted poet, Thom Gunn; with additional papers of Belle Randall. The bulk of the letters date from the 1960s through Gunn's death in 2004.

1 box (.4 linear feet)

UC Berkeley Libraries

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UC Berkeley Libraries

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Randall, Belle

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Belle Randall was taught by Gunn as a freshman at UC Berkeley, where she won the Emily Cook Chamberlain Prize in Poetry in 1961 and the Eisner Prize in English in 1966. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford in 1969. Randall's MA in creative writing was earned at Stanford in 1972, her thesis becoming her first published book of poems. She is now a distinguished poet and teacher in her own right. From the description of Belle Randall collection of Thom Gunn letters, 1960-2006. (Universi...

Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...