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Swallow, Alan, 1915-1966
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Swallow was born in 1915; BA, English, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, 1937; MA and Ph. D, Louisiana State Univ.; taught at Univ. of New Mexico and Western State College before becoming full-time professor at Univ. of Denver; helped to found Univ. of Denver Press, 1947; created publishing company, Alan Swallow, Publisher, in 1954; later imprints included Big Mountain Press, Sage Books, and Swallow Paperbooks; published over four hundred titles, primarily of poetry, criticism, and Western Americana; d...
Swallow Press
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The Swallow Press, begun in the early 1940s in Denver by Alan Swallow, was a significant force in the world of small press publishing. By issuing the works of authors such as Frank Waters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, and Anais Nin, Swallow built a one-person operation that became known for publishing material that was often ignored or rejected by larger publishing houses, but had literary merit. Following Swallow's death in 1966, the firm ws bought by four business partners and the operation w...
