Frederick D. Glidden papers, 1933-1976.

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Frederick D. Glidden papers, 1933-1976.

Collection contains correspondence, personal documents, reviews, manuscripts, teleplays, tearsheets, pulp magazines containing stories, and books. Correspondence includes letters to and from Glidden's agent, Marguerite Harper, and a file titled Western Writers of America, Inc., which concerns the plagiarism of a Luke Short story. The manuscripts series contains novels, novelettes, short stories, non-fiction articles, screenplays, and unpublished teleplays. The tearsheets series contains stories that were published serially in magazines and subsequently as books or in anthologies. Some were published in pulp magazines and in comic book form.

18.5 linear ft. (34 containers)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7665594

University of Oregon Libraries

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Short, Luke, 1908-1975

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Frederick Dilley Glidden was born in Kewanee, Illinois in 1908. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he began his career as a reporter for a series of midwest daily newspapers. During the Depression, he trapped for furs in Canada. He married Florence Elder in 1934 and fathered three children during the next few years. Glidden's writing career began in earnest when he started submitting western stories to pulp magazines while living in Santa Fe. Once he took on an agent, Marguerite Harper, h...

Harper, Marguerite Kaechele.

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