Authors and Poets collection

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Authors and Poets collection

1880-1989 and undated (majority 1946-1968)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1516

Assembled from a number of miscellaneous literary manuscript collections, Authors and Poets is a diffuse collection of correspondence, manuscripts, page and galley proofs, publications, serials, sound recordings, photographs, and ephemera relating to various literary figures. The bulk of the collection consists of materials by and relating to the publishing activities of twentieth-century American authors, such as William Carlos Williams, John Updike, Amiri Baraka, and Richard Aldington and journalists such as H. L. Mencken and Derek Stanford.

8.75 linear feet and 24 items.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7883129

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Authors and Poets

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From the guide to the Authors and Poets Collection, 1880-1989 and undated, 1946-1968, (Literature and Rare Books) ...

Updike, John

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s1r6q (person)

American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gn8xd9 (person)

This collection covers the years of William Carlos Williams's medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a year of service at a New York City hospital, a semester of medical study in Leipzig, and the period when he was setting up his medical practice and courting his future wife, Florence Herman, in his home town of Rutherford, N.J. During this time, his younger brother Edgar went from engineering and architectural studies at M.I.T. to further study of architecture at the American Academ...

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d901fw (person)

Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...