Tillie Olsen papers, 1930-1990.

Yamada, Mitsuye

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Biography Mitsuye Yamada was born Mitsuye May Yasutake in Kyushu, Japan on July 5, 1923. When she was three years of age, her parents immigrated with their young family to the United States. Although she was sent back to Japan to live with her grandmother for eighteen months when she was 11-12 years old, Yamada spent most of her formative years in Seattle, Washington. On December 7, 1941, immediately following the bombing of Pearl...

Walker, Alice, 1944-

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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry....

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974

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Sexton was a poet and playwright. From the description of Poems, 1961-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78491220 Anne Sexton was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed American poets of the 20th century. Her complex, confessional verse treated such topics as mental illness, sexual liberation, and 1960s Americana with honesty and wit. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Anne Sexton committed suicide in 1974. From the description of Anne Sexton l...

MacDowell (Peterborough, N.H.)

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MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell Colony (or simply "the Colony") but the Board of Directors voted to remove "Colony" from the name in an effort to remove "terminology with oppressive overtones". After Edward MacDowell died in 1908, Marian MacDowell established the artists' residency pr...

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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Epithet: Canadian author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x0001bb Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood was born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa. She earned a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto, and an M.A. from Harvard. She is a novelist, poet, literary critic and a pioneer of Canadian women's writing. While primarily known for her novels and short fiction, she is the author of over fifteen books o...

Redman, Blanche.

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Hedges, Elaine R.

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Kallet, Marilyn, 1946-

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Klepfisz, Irena, 1941-....

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De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975

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Maynard Shipley (1872-1934) was a criminologist and scientist who often spoke out in favor of science and evolution and against religious fanaticism and capital punishment. Shipley also worked as an editor, speaker, and organizer for the Socialist Party alongside Eugene V. Debs. Shipley married Miriam Allen De Ford in 1921. Ford was a writer and eventually wrote about Shipley in a biography entitled Up-Hill All The Way (1956), also in the Tamiment Library. From the guide to the Miria...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Heffernan, Helen, 1896-

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Smith, Alice E. (Alice Elizabeth), 1896-

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Scowcroft, Richard

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Richard Scowcroft joined the faculty of the Department of English at Stanford in 1947; he was appointed professor in 1957 and retired in 1979. He served as associate director and then director of the Creative Writing Program and was chair of the English department from 1976 to 1978. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Utah and then traveled for two years before pursuing graduate work at Harvard. He was a teaching fellow there from 1942-46, earned his Ph.D. in 1946, and was a Brigg...

Tanenhaus, Beverly

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Gerson, Deborah.

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Mirrielees, Edith Ronald, 1878-1962

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Edith R. Mirrielees was Professor of English at Stanford 1909-1944, emeritus 1944-1962. From the description of Edith R. Mirrielees papers, 1870-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448781 Biographical/Historical Sketch Mirrielees was Professor of English at Stanford 1909-1944, emeritus 1944-1962. From the guide to the Edith R. Mirrielees papers, 1863-1964, (Department of Special Collections and University ...

Bryant, Dorothy, 1930-

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Polite, Frank

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Appleton, Sarah A.

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Turow, Scott

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Lawyer. A.B. Amherst, 1970; J.D. Harvard Law, 1978. With Office of U.S. Attorney, Chicago, Ill., 1978- . From the description of Manuscript of One L /Scott Frederic Turow, 1976-1978 (inclusive). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 122563929 ...

Miller, Nolan, 1907-2006

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Childress, Alice

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Pioneering African-American writer, actress and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was popularly known for her best-selling novel, "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich," and her plays, most notably "Wedding Band: A Love Story in Black and White." In the 1930s she met and married Alvin Childress, best known for his role as Amos in the television series, "Amos and Andy. "She was a founding member of the American Negro Theatre, and in 1944 she and her husband Alvin appeared in "Anna ...

Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990

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Ernst Bacon, 1898-1990, was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. From the description of Papers, 1962-1976 (inclusive), 1972-1976 (bulk). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122639945 From the guide to the Ernst Bacon papers, 1962-1976 (inclusive, 1972-1976, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Composed 1937. First performance Chicago, 5 February 1940, Illinois Symphony Orchestra of the Works Progress Administration, the compos...

Kolodny, Annette, 1941-....

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Annette Kolodny received her Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. Kolodny focused on American Literature. She has taught at various universities throughout the United States and Canada. While at the University of British Columbia (1970-1974), Kolodny was instrumental in creating a Women's Studies program, the first academically accredited Women's Studies program in Canada. This program became a model for both the United States and Canada. Kolodny was an associate and assis...

Schick, Carla.

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Goedicke, Patricia

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Naiman, Adeline

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Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992

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Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was an American avant garde writer and poet. She lived in San Francisco, Newark, Delaware, and Rowayton, Connecticut, when she wrote these letters. From the description of Kay Boyle letters and poems, 1935-1975. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 33890909 Kay Boyle was an American essayist, novelist, short-story writer, translator, essayist, and translator. From the description of Kay Boyle collection of papers, 1...

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...

Brindel, June Rachuy

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Green, Hannah, 1932-

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American writer. Received her masters' degree under Wallace Stegner at Stanford University, 1956. Known particularly for her THE DEAD OF THE HOUSE, 1972. From the description of Letters to Vincent McHugh, 1957-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553406 Hannah Green died in 1996, six months after her "classic work, " THE DEAD OF THE HOUSE, originally published by Doubleday in 1972, was reissued in paperback form by Books & Company/Turtle Point Press. Married to the ar...

Elman, Richard M.

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A professional writer of articles, stories, reviews, and poetry. From the description of [Papers] / Richard M. Elman. 1963-1973. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 13872586 Richard Elman (1932-1997) was an American author, novelist and poet. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1955 and studied creative writing at Stanford, after which he embarked on a literary career producing novels, nonfiction, essays, book reviews, poetry and other pieces. He also ...

Roemer, Michael, 1928-....

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Michael Roemer, filmmaker and professor at the Yale School of Art, was born in Germany in 1928. He left Germany during World War II and lived in England until 1945 when he emigrated to the United States. He attended Harvard University and made his directorial debut in 1949 with A Touch of the Times . Following graduation, he made educational films and documentaries before making his first fictional film, Nothing But a Man, in 1964. Nothing But a Man earned two awards at the Venice Film Festival....

Greenberg, Joanne C.

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Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

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The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...

Meyer, Howard R., 1903-1988

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Howard R. Meyer was one of the pioneers of modern architecture in Texas. Born in New York City, he studied at Columbia, graduating with a bachelor of architecture in 1928. Meyer's exposure to modernism came very early. In 1926 while still a student, he worked in the office of William Lescaze, then the leading representative of the international style on the East Coast. Inspired by what he saw, Meyer, accompanied by his wife Schon, embarked on a year-long trip to Europe t...

Tovish, Margo.

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Cliff, Michelle

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Michelle Cliff was born in Jamaica and grew up there and in the United States. She was educated in New York City and at the Warburg Institute at the University of London, where she completed a Ph.D. on the Italian Renaissance. She is the author of novels (Abeng, No Telephone To Heaven, and Free Enterprise), short stories (Bodies of Water), 'prose poetry' (The Land of Look Behind and Claiming and Identity They Taught Me to Despise), as well as numerous works of criticism. Her essays ...

Rosenfelt, Deborah Silverton

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Wilson, J.J., 1936-

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Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977

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Louis Untermeyer was a noted author, editor, and translator. His tastes were eclectic, and his friendships many; he produced more than one hundred books, and volumes of letters. His numerous poetry anthologies have helped introduce verse to generations of schoolchildren. From the description of Heinrich Heine, paradox and poet, 1936. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 56550722 From the description of Louis Untermeyer letter to Judith Wright McKinn...

DeSalvo, Louise A., 1942-....

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Rogers, Linda, 1944-....

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Waterman, Ray

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Sweeney, John, 1946-

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Technical sergeant, United States Army; instructor, Ramgarh Training Center, India, 1942-1944. From the description of John Sweeney papers, 2000-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123379670 ...

Paley, Grace, 1922-2007

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Grace Paley (b. Grace Goodside, Dec. 11, 1922, Bronx, NY-d. Aug. 22, 2007, Thetford, VT) attended Hunter College and The New School where she studied with W. H. Auden. She married June 20, 1942, Grace Goodside married cinematographer Jess Paley in 1942 and had two children before getting divorced. Paley married poet Robert Nichols 1n 1972. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College. Her first collection was published in 1959. A known pacifist and social activist, Paley joined the War Resisters Leagu...

Lawrence, Margaret Morgan

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Meyer, Odette

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Kumin, Maxine, 1925-....

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Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-

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Wright, Michael

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MacShane, Frank

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Randall, Margaret, 1936-

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Randall moved to Cuba from the United States in 1969 to study the status of women there. From the description of Essays, 1979, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007880 Randall has been a poet, editor, and author. She was born in New York but spent most of her adult life in Latin America, moving from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Mexico in 1961, then to Cuba in 1969, and from there to Nicaragua in 1980, returning to Albuquerque in 1984. From the desc...

Russ, Joanne.

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Papanek, Hanna

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Shameless Hussy Press

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Small press founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by Alta (Gerrey) and specializing in poetry, books related to women, and children's books. From the description of Shameless Hussy Press records, 1968-1989. (University of California, Santa Cruz). WorldCat record id: 29606244 ...

Starkman, Elaine Markus.

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Ozick, Cynthia, 1928-

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Cynthia Ozick has published novels, criticism, essays, and short stories. Her fiction is serious, careful, and passionately written, often involving the theme of Judaism in a Christian world. Her deeply distinctive writing style, philosophical themes, and diverse output have made her one of the most honored and respected contemporary American authors. From the description of Cynthia Ozick letter to Joshua Welsh, 1999 April 6. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record...

Cahill, Susan Neunzig

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Yalom, Marilyn

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Marilyn Yalom received her BA in French from Wellesley and her MA in German and French from Harvard, completing a PhD in comparative literature at Johns Hopkins, 1963. She has been affiliated with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University (formerly the Institute for Research on Women and Gender) since 1976. From the description of Female sexuality project records, 1973-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864225 ...

Washington, Mary Helen

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Sternburg, Janet

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Kizer, Carolyn

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Poet Carolyn Kizer has also worked as an educator, translator, critic, and editor. Born and educated in the Pacific Northwest, her career has taken her across the country and around the world. A poet's poet, she has never been prolific, but her poems are admired for their precision and quality. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. From the description of Carolyn Kizer letter to Louis Untermeyer, 1966 July 19. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54314...

Cumming, Patricia

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Ward, Theadora.

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Gilgun, John

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Author; b. John Francis Gilgun, 1935. From the description of Papers, 1948-1986. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28410253 ...

Orr, Elaine Neil

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Millet, Kate

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Morgan, Ellen K. H.

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Janows, Jill

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Cooper, Jane, 1924-2007

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Boyde, Blanche.

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Wong, Nellie C.

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A Chinese-American poet and union activist, Nellie Wong was born and raised in the Oakland Chinatown of the 1940's. After the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans to relocation camps during World War II, Wong worked in her family's great China Restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown. Later, she traveled across the Bay to pursue studies in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Meanwhile, Wong worked at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation as a secretary from 1964-82. W...

Krapf, Norbert, 1943-

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x000103 Norbert Krapf was born in Jasper, Indiana. He received his bachelors degree from St. Joseph College in Rensselear, Indiana and his masters and doctorate in English from the University of Notre Dame. He taught English at the C.W. Post of Long Island University, New York from 1970-2004. Upon retiring, he and his family moved to Indianapolis. Since 1976...

Minty, Judith, 1937-

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Hopkins, Glenn

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Conroy, Lynne.

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Conroy was media consultant for a Women's Educational Equity Act project in Boston entitled "The Role Integration Packet: A Rural-Urban Model of Education." This project included a videotaped interview with Pauli Murray, professor, writer, and first black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. From the description of Papers, 1978-1980 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122521938 ...

Stone, Ruth M.

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Gottlieb, Annie

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Keeble, John, 1944-

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Brandon, Dolores

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Meehan, Maude

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Hughes, Mary Gray

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Mary Gray Hughes, the daughter of Texas author and newspaperman, Hart Stilwell and his first wife, Mary Gray Seabury, was born in Brownsville, Texas on August 25, 1930. A prolific and respected author in her own right, Hughes wrote and was published almost continuously for nearly three decades from 1969 until dying from cancer in Chicago, IL in September, 1999. Throughout her life, she received numerous awards for her writing. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellows...

Griffin, Susan, 1942-

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Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie

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Seyersted, Per, 1921-2005

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Olsen, Tillie

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Vicki Lerner Bergman is Tillie Olsen's youngest sister. From the description of Letters to Vicki Bergman : photocopies, 1960-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448506 Twentieth century Texas author. From the description of Tillie Olsen collection. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 22581533 American writer, born in 1912 and died in 2007. From the description of Tillie Olsen papers, 1930-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Socialist Party of the United States of America

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Murray, Michele.

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Limmer, Ruth, 1923-

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Piercy, Marge

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Park-Fuller, Linda Marguerite

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Foley, Margaret Urbas

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Moers, Ellen, 1928-....

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Dr. Ellen Moers was a professor in the Department of English at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1972. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155885740 Author and educator. From the description of Papers, 1945-1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309771166 ...

Gilbert, Celia, 1932-

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Duncan, Erika

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Wilder, Annie, 1961-

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Konecky, Edith

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Edith Rubin Konecky was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Harry and Elizabeth Smith Rubin. Her father, the quintessential self-made man, had escaped the pogroms in Eastern Europe, immigrating to America where he would become a prosperous dress manufacturer. This distant, driven character would feature prominently in two of Konecky's most acclaimed novels, Allegra Maud Goldman (1976) and A Place at the Table (1989). Her writing "career," began in high school when she won he...

Miner, Valerie

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Cuomo, Joe

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Malamud, Bernard

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Novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 and raised in Brooklyn. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his heritage would play a key role in his development as a writer. He was also influenced by growing up during the the Depression and by 19th-century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville. His bittersweet, tragicomic stories often merge reality and fantasy, and explore the human condition through themes of suffering and moral obligation. His work has won many ...

Goldfarb, Sidney, 1942-

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Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-....

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Brown, Rosellen 1939-

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Coiner, Constance

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Reeves, Nancy, 1913-

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Swan, Barbara, 1922-....

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Swan, a painter, draftsman, and lithographer from Boston, Mass., was friends of Rosalind Miller, a professor of psychiatric social work at Columbia University, and Edwin Miller, a Walt Whitman scholar and biographer of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Millers are collectors of American textiles. From the description of Barbara Swan letters to Rosalind and Edwin Miller, 1961-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81488088 Painter, printmaker; Brookline, Mass. ...

Myers, Margaret, 1947-

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Ruddick, Sally.

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Nason, Thelma Campbell

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Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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American editor and writer. From the description of Letter to Matthew Bruccoli [manuscript], 1975 December 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812058 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1969. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810601 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874698 Malcolm Cowley was an influential liter...

Lewis, Janet, 1899-1998

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American writer of many genres, including novels, short stories, poetry and librettos. Many of her friends and correspondents were at one time students or colleagues of Yvor Winters. From the description of Janet Lewis papers, 1964-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122639569 Biographical Note : Yvor Winters Yvor Winters was born in Chicago on October 17, 1900, the son of a stockbroker. As a very young child he moved we...

Shanahan, Thomazine

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Lazreg, Marnia

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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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Ursula K. Le Guin (b. Oct. 21, 1929, Berkeley, CA-d. Jan. 22, 2018, Portland, OR) is an author noted for fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature. Born in California, her father was an anthropologist and her mother was a writer; she was educated at Radcliffe and Columbia. Her diverse and respected short stories and novels are built on themes of balance and the environment, and often express feminist concerns. Praised for creativity, elegant prose, and complex characters and s...

Fisher, Elizabeth, 1970-

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Resident of Evanston, Ill. From the description of Papers, 1932-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965128 ...

Henry, Dewitt

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Showalter, Elaine

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Jong, Erica

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Feminist novelist, poet, and essayist Erica Jong has published 20 books, including eight novels, six volumes of poetry, six books of non-fiction, and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers. From the description of How to Save Your Own Life : a novel : manuscript, 1977. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 496807049 Erica Jong is an American novelist, poet, and social writer. Her landmark first novel, Fear of flying, became infamous for frank and expli...

Bridges, Harry, 1901-1990

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Harry Renton Bridges, also known as Alfred Renton Byrant Bridges, came to the United States in 1920 from Australia where he had been a seaman and involved in union activities. Bridges continued to be active on the docks in fighting for labor rights and was instrumental in getting the International Longshore Association (ILA), an affiliate of the AF of L, recognized as the bargaining unit for the entire Pacific coast. He became president of ILA Local 34-36 and in 1936 its Pacific Coast preside...

Ettinger, Elżbieta.

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Professor, novelist, and biographer, Elżbieta Ettinger was born in Lodz, Poland, on September 19, 1924, to Emmanuel Ettinger and Regina Stahl. She survived the Holocaust in Poland, escaping the Warsaw ghetto and working and living in Poland under the war-time pseudonym Elżbieta Chodakowska. After the war, she was director of the Import Department of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Trade, and she worked as a journalist and interpreter, traveling to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia with the Internatio...

Kitrilakis, Thalia

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Zucker, Jack

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Earle, Ralph, 1874-1939

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MACKENZIE, MIDGE

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Bingham, Sallie

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American author. From the description of After such knowledge [manuscript], 1960. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806189 Feminist and author. From the description of Sallie Bingham papers, 1930-2011 and undated (bulk 1940s-2000s) (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 37869800 From the description of Sallie Bingham papers, 1900-2003 and undated (bulk [1940s]-1998). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 83772096 ...

Duplessis, Rachel Blau

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DuPlessis is a contemporary poet and feminist scholar, whose primary research interest have been modern and postmodern American writing. She has been an Oppen family friend for more than twenty years. From the description of George Oppen letters, 1930-1982. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 28684021 Biography An Oppen family friend for more than twenty years, Rachel Blau DuPlessis is Professor of ...

Boucher, Sandy.

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Durham, Flora

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Radcliffe Institute

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Aberlin, Betty

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Moss, Rose

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English, Dierdre.

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Ballantyne, Sheila, 1936-2007

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Saxton, Ruth, 1885-

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Rosen, Norman C

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Boynton, Grace M.

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Grumbach, Doris.

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Doris Grumbach is a novelist, biographer, and literary critic. Her published works include a biography of Mary McCarthy, THE COMPANY SHE KEPT (1976), the novel CHAMBER MUSIC (1979), and the memoir COMING INTO THE END ZONE (1991). She has served as literary editor of THE NEW REPUBLIC and on the faculties of the College of Saint Rose (Albany, NY), American University (Washington, DC) and the Writer's Workshop of the University of Iowa. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in numerous literary...

Barolini, Helen, 1925-....

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Writer and translator, Helen Frances Mollica Barolini was born in Syracuse, N.Y., has a B.A. from Syracuse and a M.L.S. from Columbia, and attended a number of universities in Europe. She married Antonio Barolini, Italian author and correspondent, had three daughters, and lived in Italy in the late 1960s. She has published a novel, two volumes of poetry, and an anthology of writings by Italian American women, as well as essays, reviews, and fiction in many periodicals. From the descr...

Brodine, Karen

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Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

Homley, Elaine.

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Moffat, Mary Jane

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Mary Jane Moffat taught creative writing at San Francisco State, Foothill College, and other venues. She was particularly well-known for teaching the art of autobiography and the writing of memoirs. From the description of Mary Jane Moffat papers, 1970-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863718 ...

Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914-

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Guérard is an emeritus professor of English at Stanford University and a novelist. From the description of Research materials on John Hawkes, 1959-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866725 From the description of Research Materials on Lya de Putti and Lois Moran, 1923-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510610 Albert Joseph Guérard is Professor Emeritus of English at Stanford University, and a novelist. From the description of Albert J. Guéra...