Papers, 1940-1987.

Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989

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Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951 and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until 1989. Born in Chambers County, Alabama, Pepper established a legal practice in Perry, Florida after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving a single term in the Florida House o...

Kahn, Hannah, 1911-1988

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Kahn, Gene.

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Zychlinska, Racjel.

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Pettigrew, Richard F. (Richard Franklin), 1848-1926

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Surveyor, lawyer, businessman, member of Dakota Territorial Council, and U.S. senator, of Sioux Falls, S.D. From the description of Papers, [188-]-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975760 ...

Peters, Thelma

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Juergensen, Hans, 1919-....

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Hans Juergensen was born December 17, 1919, in Myslowitz, Germany (now Poland). After serving with the U.S. Army in several European campaigns, he married Ilsa Dina Loebenberg is 1945. He received a B.A. from Upsala College in 1942 and a Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins in 1951. After teaching at the University of Kansas and at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut, Dr. Juergensen joined the faculty of the University of South Florida for the remainder of his academic career. He is the author of numer...

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

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Douglas was a conservationist who fought to preserve the Florida Everglades against misuse and development. From the description of Marjory Stoneman Douglas letter to Mrs. Harris, 1972 July 6. (Manatee County Public Library System). WorldCat record id: 216809847 From the description of Marjory Stoneman Douglas letter to Mrs. Harris, 1970 August 5. (Manatee County Public Library System). WorldCat record id: 216810597 ...

Latham, Jean Lee

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American author of children's and young adult books; Newbery Award winner, 1956. From the description of Papers, 1948-1965. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62423986 Author. From the description of Papers, 1950? (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 23534201 American author of children's and young adult books. From the description of The frightened hero : a story of the siege of Latham House : production mate...

Angoff, Charles, 1902-1979

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American author, editor, lecturer, and professor; editor of H.L. Mencken's periodical The American Mercury (1925-1935, 1943-1950); b. in Russia; d. 1979. From the description of Charles Angoff collection, 1927-1978. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 79379637 ...

Sandahl, Eric

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Tanner, Fran.

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Skellings, Edmund

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Willeford, Charles Ray, 1919-

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American author and teacher; b. Charles Ray Willeford III; d. 1988. From the description of Charles Willeford collection, 1956-1980. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969758 ...

Academy of American Poets

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The Academy of American poets was founded in 1934 by Mrs. Hugh Bullock to encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of American poetry by providing fellowships for poets, sponsoring national book awards for poets of all accomplishments, offering prizes in American universities and numerous other public programs, and bringing poetry into the daily lives of Americans. The Academy's series of readings, lectures, and dialogues, offered annually since 1963, has achieved a national reputation. ...

Muir, Helen, 1911-

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Muir worked as a columnist for the Universal Service Syndicate from 1935-1938, and wrote for the Miami News and Miami Herald newspapers until 1965. In addition to writing columns, she was the children's book editor for the Miami Herald and the drama critic and women's editor of the Miami News. She also wrote for the national magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, Nation's Business, and Women's Day. Helen Muir was also active in the local community, especially libraries. She served on the ...

Association for Retarded Citizens (U.S.)

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Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944

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Chicago poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor. Born Eunice Strong Hammond in Chicago in 1884, Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News in France, 1917-1918, and for over twenty-five years she was on the staff of Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Although Tietjens wrote poetry, a novel, and memoirs, her reputation rests mainly on her influence as a friend, critic, and editor of such early twnetieth centu...

Kahn, Hannah D

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Poet, translator, and poetry review editor for the Miami Herald. Kahn was born in New York City in 1911. She is the author of Eve's Daughter, 1962, Wait, 1983, and co-editor of Wind Child, by Orma Jean Surbey, 1969. Hannah Kahn authored more than 400 poems, published in literary and popular periodicals, including American Scholar, Harpers, Saturday Review, Southwest Review, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, and Saturday Evening Post. She was winner of awards from the Poetr...

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977

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Loren Corey Eiseley was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1907. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a B.S. degree in English and geology/anthropology in 1933. He received an A.M. degree in anthropology in 1935 and a Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937. In 1937, Eiseley married Mabel Langdon. The Eiseleys moved to Kansas, then Ohio, then Pennsylvania, where Eiseley held a number of administrative posts at universities. He was active in several professional and aca...

Kahn, Eve M.

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Hart, Janet Tietjens.

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Hayden, Hiram.

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Malone, Ted, 1908-1989

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Ted Malone was a popular radio broadcaster best known for his folksy storytelling and poetry readings. In 1929, he started the program "Between the Bookends" at KMBC in Kansas City. Some of his other radio programs included "Pilgrimage of Poetry" and "American Pilgrimage". He served as a correspondent for ABC during World War II, interviewing soldiers for human interest stories. Malone worked for all of the major networks during his approximately 50-year career. From the description ...

Droster, William C.

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Chambless, William

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Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berkeley, California, to Frank Deering, 1919 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131470 Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968. From the description of Witter Bynner papers, 1917-1943. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35920677 American poet and sc...

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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African American poet and novelist, who was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. From the description of Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79334638 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 17, 1917 and moved shortly after her birth to Chicago's South Side, where she lived until her death. She authored more than twenty books of poetry, beginning with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), follow...

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000343 American poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic . From the description of Letter, 1969 January 26 (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 148050827 Conrad Aiken was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. From the description of Conrad Aiken collection of papers, 1913-1963. (...