James Ngugi letter to [Walter Goldwater], Manager, University Place Bookshop, 1970 September 21.

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James Ngugi letter to [Walter Goldwater], Manager, University Place Bookshop, 1970 September 21.

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While at Northwestern University, Ngugi writes to [Walter Goldwater], Manager, University Book Shop, New York, N.Y., 21 September 1970, requesting a book he ordered to use in teaching, and a copy of the latest catalog.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, born James Ngugi, is a Kenyan novelist, essayist, and playwright. Ngugi accepted a year's visiting professorship in African literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois--where he began writing Petals of Blood (1977)--before returning to Nairobi in August 1971 to take a lectureship in University College's Department of Literature. He most recently taught at New York University. His commitment to Kenya, combined with a technical mastery of fictional forms and a ...

Goldwater, Walter.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Walter Goldwater first opened the University Place Book Shop in 1932. He financed the Shop, situated in a loft at 821 Broadway at 12th Street, with the help of a six hundred dollar loan from "a Communist uncle by marriage." Goldwater specialized in African and African American literature, as well as old and rare books. As proprietor of University Place, Goldwater became part of the vibrant community of booksellers whose shops crowded Fourth Avenue from 9th to 14th ...