Perry Deane Young papers, 1954-2004.

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Perry Deane Young papers, 1954-2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57666207

Correspondence with editors, publishers, friends, and family members; letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials from Young's experiences in the Vietnam War and about Vietnam; and items relating to Young's writings, especially "Two of the Missing" (1975), about journalists Dana Stone and Sean Flynn, who disappeared in Vietnam, and "A Killing Cure" (1985), about co-writer Evelyn Walker's malpractice suit about abusive psychotherapy. Included is correspondence with Jim Shumaker, editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, about Vietnam; Allen Ginsberg in 1982 about a conference; Terry Sanford; Judy Loeb; poet Robert VanderMolen; Hannah Tillich; Robbie Robertson; Gloria Steinem about gender issues; Reynolds Price; writer Ron Dorfman; writer Ron Hollander; musician Casse Culver; photographer David Hume Kennerly; gay football player David Kopay, whose biography Young co-authored; writer Lewis H. Lapham; photographer Kenneth Maley; writer William Wright (Bill); writer Christopher Isherwood; Georgia congressman and actor Ben Jones; writer Rosemary Daniell; and a copy of an undated letter from Truman Capote congratulating Young on "Two of the Missing."

About 5,700 items (16.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7763721

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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