Mary McCarthy papers 1925-1990 (bulk 1960-1989).

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

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Hannah Arendt was born in Linden in 1906. At the age of three her family moved to Königsberg. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family. She studied at the University of Marburg and obtained her doctorate in philosophy writing on Love and Saint Augustine at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Hannah Arendt encountered increasing anti-Jewish discrimination in 1930s Nazi Germany. In 1933 Arendt was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal rese...

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

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Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995) was an English poet and novelist who worked with the themes of social injustice and class struggle. Spender was born in London and educated at University College, Oxford. He was mentored by W. H. Auden with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. He edited Horizon with Cyril Connolly from 1939-1941. Following WW II, Spender devoted his time to criticism, co-editing the magazine Encounter from 1953-1966. Spender also held a number ...

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), Jr., 1917-2007

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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 an...

McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989

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American essayist and novelist who served as editor of the PARTISAN REVIEW (1937-1938). From the description of Letter : Paris, to Nancy Macdonald, New York, NY, 1964 March 16. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 31912412 American critic and novelist. From the description of Manuscripts for The Group, 1953-1964. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405976 ...

Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973

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A.M. Hearth & Company.

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Wilson, Reuel K., 1938-....

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Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), American literary critic and author. Reuel K. Wilson (1938-), son of Edmund Wilson and author Mary McCarthy, professor of modern languages and literatures, University of Western Ontario. From the description of Reuel K. Wilson papers relating to Edmund Wilson, 1942-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171986 ...

Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984

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Dramatist. From the description of The autumn garden : playscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131544 Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), playwright and screenwriter. From the description of These three : (Hellman story), 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193196 Lillian Hellman, America’s most significant woman playwright of the twentieth century, was born on June 20, 1905, in New Orleans to Max and Julia Newhouse Hellman. Her e...

West family.

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Wilson, Edmund

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Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. From the description of Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596904 From the guide to the Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American author and critic. From the description of Typewritten letters signed...

Viscusi, Margo

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Hardwick, Elizabeth

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American novelist, essayist, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1934-1991 (bulk 1960-1990). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530463 Born July 27, 1916, Elizabeth Hardwick grew up with ten brothers and sisters in Lexington, Kentucky. She attended local schools, and received a master's degree in English from the University of Kentucky in 1939. Shortly thereafter, Hardwick moved to New Y...

Spanish Refugee Aid (Organization)

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Spanish Refugee Aid (SRA) was founded in 1953 to assist refugees of the Spanish Civil War who were then residing in France. Nancy Macdonald (1910-1996) was the leading figure in the founding of Spanish Refugee Aid and remained at the organization's helm until her retirement in 1983. SRA maintained an office in New York City and coordinated aid efforts in France from Paris, Toulouse and Montauban. Between 1953 and 2006 when SRA, by then a program of the International Rescue Committee, was dissolv...

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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Company name changed twice during the course of this correspondence. Correspondence dating 1934-1960 is to Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.; 1961-June 1970 to Harcourt, Brace & World; and finally, July 1970-1979 to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. From the description of Correspondence, 1934-1979, from Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155880950 Company name changed twice during the course of this correspondence. Correspondence dating 19...

Tucci, Niccolò, 1908-....

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Born in Switzerland, raised in Italy, becoming U.S. citizen in 1953; author, playwright, and journalist; wrote in Italian and English; d. 1999. From the description of Niccolo Tucci collection, [193-]-[197-]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969790 Novelist and journalist; writes in Italian and English. From the description of Niccolò Tucci collection, 1930-1979. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70958595 ...

Stwertka, Eve

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Macdonald, Dwight

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Dwight Macdonald was born on March 24, 1906, in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1928 (B.A.). He served as associate editor of Fortune Magazine (1929-1936) and editor of the Partisan Review (1937-1943). Macdonald joined the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist Party), and was a member from 1939-1941. He published numerous books, articles, and essays in addition to publishing a journal, Politics, from 1944-1949. He also wrote for Esquire and The New Yorker, and published Memoirs...

Nooteboom, Cees, 1933-....

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Köhler, Lotte.

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Psychoanalyst. From the description of Lotte Köhler correspondence, 1993-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983726 ...

Broadwater, Bowden,

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Chiaromonte, Nicola

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Nicola Chiaromonte (1905-1972), journalist and author who participated in the antifascist Giustizia e Libertá movement during the 1930s while living in exile in Paris. He contributed to Politics and Partisan Review in the 1940s, and edited, with Ignazio Silone, Tempo presente from 1956 until 1968. His pieces on theater and film are collected in La situazione drammatica (1959); Credere e non credere, his best-known work, appeared in 1971. From the description of Nicola Chiaromonte pa...

Brandt & Brandt.

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