Valerie Taylor papers, 1913-1997.

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Valerie Taylor papers, 1913-1997.

Published and unpublished novels, poetry, essays, articles, and reviews, as well as drafts, reviews of her work, and publicity. Also, correspondence and unpublished work of Will Inman, Lee Lynch, Hank Mayer, Vera J. Terrell, May Sarton, Elsa Gidlow, Studs Terkel, Barbara Grier of Naiad Press, and many others. Includes publishing correspondence, fan mail, biographical material, video and audio tapes, and subject files relating to feminist, literary, peace, Quaker, and lesbian activities.

8.7 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7903966

Cornell University Library

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Mayer, C. H.

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Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008

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Studs Terkel was born May 16, 1912, and died in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2008. Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre. From the description of It's a living, [videorecording], 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612307109 and the description of Studs Terkel papers and book interviews, ca. 1950-1999. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713907330 ...

Grier, Barbara, 1933-2011

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Grier is a writer, editor, and publisher of articles and books on lesbians and lesbianism. She is one of the founders of Naiad Press, a lesbian publishing house. From the description of Barbara Grier-Naiad Press collection, 1956-1999. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 47183122 ...

Gidlow, Elsa, 1898-1986

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Editor, publisher, journalist, poet, and author; one of the first openly lesbian writers in the United States. From the description of Works, 1970, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 81092625 Biography Shortly after Elsa Gidlow's death Phyllis Matyi, Elsa's friend, attorney and executrix of the Gidlow estate, issued a press release presenting a biographical summary of Elsa's life. The text of t...

Taylor, Valerie, 1913-1997

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Lesbian author and poet, peace activist, and feminist. Born 7 September 1913 in Aurora Illinois, Velma Nacella Young published her first lesbian novel Whisper Their Love in 1957, under the pen name Valerie Taylor. Also published under the names Nacella Young and Francine Davenport; married name was Velma Tate. Died 22 October 1997 in Tucson, Arizona, aged 84. From the description of Valerie Taylor papers, 1913-1997. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63889672 ...

Lynch, Lee.

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Terrell, Vera J.

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Inman, Will, 1923-2009

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Poet, essayist, columnist, editor, and an activist for civil rights, peace in Vietnam, and communism. He was a native of Wilmington, N.C., is a 1943 Duke University graduate, and lives in Tucson, Arizona. He was born William Archibald McGirt, Jr. From the description of Papers, 1910-2001. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 84133900 Poet, essayist, columnist, editor, and an activist for civil rights, peace in Vietnam, and communism. He was a native of Wilmington, ...

Naiad Press

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Starting in Missouri in 1973, moving to Tallahassee, Florida in 1980, and closing in June 2003, Naiad Press was the longest running lesbian publisher in the United States. Barbara Grier, Donna McBride, Anyda Marchant, and Muriel Inez Crawford founded the press. Grier and McBride stayed at the helm until the press closed. The press published romantic lesbian novels, lesbian detective fiction, J.R. Robert's bibliography of black lesbian writing, BLACK LESBIANS, and Pat Califia's lesbian sex manual...

Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...