Papers, 1940-1999.

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1940-1999.

The collection consists of correspondence, screenplays, manuscript versions of books and poems by McGrath. Works by other writers are also included. There are periodicals, audiocassetes, videocassettes, and photographs. Books and articles about McGrath, interviews, a catalog of an exhibition, broadsides and papers concerning him complete the collection.

4.75 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Orin G. Libby Photographic Collection (Chester Fritz Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q287s8 (corporateBody)

McGrath, Thomas, 1916-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62v2fsh (person)

Thomas McGrath was born in 1916 near Sheldon, North Dakota. He first attended Moorhead State University and in 1939 earned a B.A. at the University of North Dakota. He studied at Louisiana State with Cleanth Brooks, was involved in radical political activity, wrote, and published his first book of poems. In the 1940-1941 academic year McGrath taught at Colby College in Maine then went to New York city where he wrote, did legal research for attorneys engaged in "political" cases, and worked at th...

Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection (Chester Fritz Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb2cdq (corporateBody)