Papers of James Branch Cabell, 1919-1954.

Paterson, Isabel

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Novelist, columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune, and conservative political commentator. From the description of Isabel Paterson papers, 1908-1998 (bulk 1927-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70970557 ...

McBride, Robert Medill, 1879-

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Björkman, Edwin, 1866-1951

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Bjorkman (1866-1951) was a Swedish-American literary critic, translator, newspaperman, and author, and, from 1925, a resident of North Carolina. From the description of Edwin Björkman papers, 1855-1954 (bulk 1907-1954) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25255408 Bjorkman's translations of Strindberg's Creditors, The Pariah, and The Stronger, were produced by the Chicago Little Theatre in 1913. From the description of Letters, to [Maurice] Browne, 1912. (Universit...

Macy, John Albert, 1877-1932

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Goldsmith, Alfred F.

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Alfred Francis Goldsmith was born in Atlantic City, N.J. and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He opened his shop, At the Sign of the Sparrow, in the Gramercy Park area of New York City in the early 1920s. His primary interests were Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman. Goldsmith helped Carolyn Wells acquire her major collection of Whitmaniana, which she later left to the Library of Congress. Their descriptive bibliography of Whitman's works appeared in 1922. We...

Blei, Franz, 1871-1942

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Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950

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Contains correspondence from Irita Van Doren, wife of Carl Van Doren. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155895031 American editor, author, and professor at Columbia University. From the description of Typed letters signed (4) : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1935-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868256 ...

MacFadyen, Virginia,

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Garrard, Glenn, 1878-1949,

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Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958

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Richmond author James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) is best known for his controversial book, Jurgen (1919), a fantasy set in Cabell's mythical medieval world of Poictesme (pronounced Pwa-tem). The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice contended the book was obscene. A trial over its content brought the reclusive writer national fame. Throughout the 1920s, Cabell's literary peers, including H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, praised his works. Cabell was born April 14, 1879, at 101 E. Frank...

Dutton, Charles J. (Charles Judson), 1888-

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Ward, Harold 1890-

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Shipley, Joseph T. (Joseph Twadell), 1893-1988

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Instructor in English. Shipley was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1912. From the description of Papers, 1917-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155503988 ...

Redman, Ben Ray, 1896-1961

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Becker, May Lamberton, 1873-1958

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Authority on children's literature, editor, author, and literary critic, Becker was a contributing editor to the book section of the New York Herald Tribune and to Scholastic Magazine. For further biographical information, see American Women, 1935-1936 (1935). From the description of Letter, 1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007142 May Lamberton Becker (1873-1958) was a writer of the "Books" column in the New York Herald Tribune. From the descrip...

Jepson, Edgar, 1863-1938

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Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977

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Louis Untermeyer was a noted author, editor, and translator. His tastes were eclectic, and his friendships many; he produced more than one hundred books, and volumes of letters. His numerous poetry anthologies have helped introduce verse to generations of schoolchildren. From the description of Heinrich Heine, paradox and poet, 1936. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 56550722 From the description of Louis Untermeyer letter to Judith Wright McKinn...

Galantière, Lewis, 1895-1977

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Translator of French literature, playwright, journalist. Galantiere (1893-1977) worked for the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris from 1920 to 1927, and came to know many French writers and American expatriates. He also worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Office of War Information, and Radio Free Europe. He was president of the American branch of P.E.N., 1965-1967. From the description of Lewis Galantière papers, 1920-1977. (Columbi...

Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947

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English poet and writer on the occult. From the description of Letter : 21 Warwick Road, [London], to [Frank] Harris, [1906?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122365912 From the description of Letter : Hastings, Sussex, to Frieda [Harris], 1947 November 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122530555 From the description of Untitled verse beginning "How like Orestes," New Year, 1909. (Harry Ransom Huma...

Chubb, Thomas Caldecot, 1899-1972

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Thomas Caldecot Chubb was born in East Orange, New Jersey, the son of insurance exective Herndon Chubb and his wife, Alice Lee Chubb. He was educated at St. Paul's School and at Yale College, receiving his BA in 1922. It was at Yale that he achieved his first literary successes. His poetry collection, The White God and Other Poems, was published in the Yale Younger Poets series in 1920, and his poem Kyrdoon was the Yale University Prize Poem in 1921. Although he served i...

Wood, A. L. S.

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Keating, George T., 1892-

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Bishop, John Peale, 1892-1944

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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : South Harwich, Mass., to Stark Young, 1934 Sept. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874880 ...

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957

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American drama critic, journalist. From the description of Correspondence, 1924-1955. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122494186 ...

Hutchings, Emily Grant

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Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947

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American editor. From the description of Typewritten letter signed "Frank" : Vanity Fair, New York, to Anita Loos, 1926 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539358 Francis Welch Crowninshield was editor of Vanity Fair for over 20 years and one of the founders of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Frank Crowninshield papers, 1880-1940. (Fashion Institute of Tech Library). WorldCat record id: 226537671 Epithet: editor of 'Vanity Fair' ...

Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954

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Born February 15, 1880 in Philadelphia, Joseph Hergesheimer was the son of Joseph and Helen MacKellar Hergesheimer. He grew up in a stable, middle-class, suburban family. His father, a cartographer, worked for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Hergesheimer traveled to Europe on money inherited from his grandfather, studying and painting in Florence and Venice. By 1907, when he returned to the United States and married Dorothy He...

De Casseres, Benjamin, 1873-1945

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American author. From the description of Letter [manuscript]: New York, N.Y., Benjamin De Casseres to Erskine Caldwell, Mount Vernon, Maine, 1926 August 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844445 Author. From the description of Papers, 1904-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456230 Benjamin De Casseres (1873-1945), a journalist and author, worked for various New York City newspapers writing columns and editorials. He also wrote poetr...

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965

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Elizabeth McCausland (1899-1965) was an art critic, writer, lecturer, and exhibition organizer. Taught at Barnard College, New School for Social Research, and Sarah Lawrence College; art critic for Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, late 1920s; author of text for Berenice Abbott's "Changing New York" (1939), "The Life and Work of Edward Lamson Henry, N.A., 1841-1919" (1945), "A. H. Maurer" (1951), "George Inness, An American Landscape Painter" (1946), "Charles W. H...

Walker, Ryan, 1974-

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Ryan Walker, cartoonist. From the description of Children of the moon caricatures, [1923]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 712664431 ...