Alison Lurie papers, [ca. 1960-1977]

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Alison Lurie papers, [ca. 1960-1977]

Notes, drafts, and printer's proofs of books by Lurie including Love and Friendship, Imaginary Friends, Real People, Foreign Affairs, The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones, Women and Ghosts, and The Last Resort; manuscript of a short story; and correspondence. Correspondents include Sue Kaufman, David Garnett, Christopher Isherwood, Olivia Manning, Arthur Mizener, Jean Stafford, and Edmund Wilson.

4.7 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7908702

Cornell University Library

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Isherwood, Christoper, 1904-

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Wilson, Edmund

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Edmund Wilson was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. From the description of Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596904 From the guide to the Edmund Wilson collection of papers, 1922-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) American author and critic. From the description of Typewritten letters signed...

Kaufman, Sue, 1926-1977

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Garnett, David, 1892-1981‏

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Author and publisher David Garnett was born in Brighton; his mother was a translator, his father a literary adviser, and he grew up in a literary environment. He studied botany at the Royal College of Science, and after graduation went into publishing. He became book critic for New Statesman, and wrote several popular novels, some fantasy and some with realistic themes. He has also written several volumes of memoirs, and edited works by T.E. Lawrence and Thomas Love Peacock. From the...

Mizener, Arthur

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Professor of English, Cornell University. From the description of Arthur Mizener letters to S. Gorley Putt, 1936-1985. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64085073 American educator, author, and critic Arthur Mizener was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on September 3, 1907, to Mason Price and Mabel Moore Mizener. From the description of Arthur Mizener papers, 1940-1977 (bulk 1943-1951). (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 667622443 ...

Lurie, Alison

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Lurie was born on Sept. 3, 1926 in Chicago, IL; BA, Radcliffe College, 1947; married Jonathan Peale Bishop, Sept. 10, 1948; lecturer (1969-73), assoc. professor (1973-76), and professor of English in 1976, Cornell Univ.; named Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American literature in 1989; won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her Foreign Affairs (1984); other books include The nowhere city (1965), Imaginary friends (1967), The war between the Tates (1974), and The Oxford book of modern fairy ...

Manning, Olivia

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Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979

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Jean Stafford was an American author, best known for her realistic and sublimely crafted short stories. Much of her fiction invoked classical literary themes, but viewed them through the perspective of an alienated, 20th century woman. Many of her stories reflected her own tumultuous, often melodramatic personal life. From the description of Jean Stafford correspondence with Henry W. Johnstone, 1969. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 55081876 Jea...