Additional Papers of Alan Cheuse 1961-1988

Yaddo (Artists' colony)

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Yaddo is an artists' retreat located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo first began welcoming creative guests in 1926, but its roots extend back to the final decades of the 19th century. After the loss of their fourth child, Spencer and Katrina Trask decided to bequeath their baronial mansion and its surrounding grounds to future generations of creative men and women. Yaddo's guest list has included Newton Arvin, Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capot...

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015

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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931. The grandson of Jewish immigrants from Russia, he grew up on Eastburn Avenue in the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science, where he showed an early interest in the arts evidenced by the inclusion of a poem, short story, and painting in his high school literary journal, Dynamo. These interests were further developed at Kenyon College, where he studied with John Crowe Ransom and shared the stage with Paul Newman an...

Young, Al, 1939–2021

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Albert James Young (1939 May 31–2021 April 17) was an African American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. Young was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He spent his early years in the segregated south where he attended the Kingston School for the Colored. The family later moved to Detroit; Young began publishing poems and articles in his teens. From 1957 to 1961, Young attended the University of Michigan, where he co-edited Generation, the campus literary magazine. He drop...

Morris, Wright, 1910-1998

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Long regarded as one of America's most gifted writers, Wright Morris authored over thirty-three books. He was born in Central City, Nebraska, on 6 January 1910. His novel, A Field of Vision, won the National Book Award in 1957, and Plains Song won the 1981 American Book Award for Fiction. In addition to his novels, he is the author of a number of photo-text books, books of criticism, and several collections of short stories. He taught English at San Francisco State College, and he and his wife, ...

Broughton, T. Alan (Thomas Alan), 1936-2013

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Mcmillan, Terry

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Popular writer Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, to Madeline Washington Tillman and Edward McMillan. She grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, a city about sixty miles northeast of Detroit. Her parents divorced when McMillan was thirteen and her father died three years later. McMillan's mother supported her family by working nights at a factory.As a child, McMillan had little interest in literature, but she discovered the joy of reading as a teenager, while working at a library shelving bo...

Irving, John, 1942-....

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American author. From the description of Introduction to a reading by Donald Justice to the Academy of American Poets at The Pierpont Morgan Library : typescript signed : [n.p.], 1982 Dec. 9 [date delivered]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874945 John Irving, screenwriter and author of source material. From the description of The cider house rules: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517206 ...

Delbanco, Nicholas

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Delbanco is an American author and poet. From the description of Consider Sappho burning : manuscripts, 1967 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78457387 Author (b. London, England) of over twenty-four books, professor, editor of selected works of John Gardner and Bernard Malamud. Has served as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and as Robert Frost Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Also serv...

Butler, Robert Olen.

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American writer Robert Olen Butler was born January 20, 1945 in the small steel-mill town of Granite City, Illinois. Planning to major in theatre, Butler enrolled at Northwestern University in 1963. He graduated with a B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) in June 1967 and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, where he received an M.F.A. in playwriting in 1969. In 1971 he joined the army and spent a year serving in the Vietnam War. His experience in Vietnam was a strong influence in his novels. I...

Kiernan, Frances

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Henry, Dewitt

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Herring, Robert, 1938-

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Pinsky, Robert

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American poet and literary critic, was born in 1940 in New Jersey. He studied English at Rutgers University (BA, 1962) and Stanford Univeristy (MA and PhD, 1967). He has taught at the University of Chicago (1966-67), Wellesley College (1967-1980), and the Univeristy of California, Berkeley, (1980-present). Since 1979 he has been poetry editor for The new republic. From the description of Robert Pinsky papers, circa 1960-2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019356 ...

Madden, David, 1935-

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Anaya, Rudolfo A.

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Rudolfo Anaya was born to Martín and Rafaelita Mares Anaya on October 30, 1937, in Pastura, New Mexico. He attended public schools in Santa Rosa and Albuquerque. A student in the English Department at the University of New Mexico, he earned a B.A. in 1963 and an M.A. in 1968. In 1972 he earned a second M.A. in guidance and counseling, also from the University of New Mexico. Anaya married Patricia Lawless in 1966. After teaching in Albuquerque public schools from 1963-1970, he became director of...

Greer, Ben

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Bestor, Charles

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McCormick, John, 1918-2010

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Atlas, James

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James Atlas is an American editor and literary critic. From the description of James Atlas collection of papers, [1976]-1997. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122639861 ...

Salter, James Arthur

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Godwin, Gail

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Author Gail Godwin was born in Birmingham, Ala.; grew up in Asheville, N.C.; was graduated in 1959 from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in journalism; and studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop, earning an M.A. in creative writing and Ph. D. in English literature. She has published ten novels and taught in various colleges and universities. Godwin lives in Woodstock, N.Y. From the description of Gail Godwin papers, 1913-2006. WorldCat record id: 49338168 ...

Kornblatt, Joyce Reiser

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Draper, Robert.

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Lott, Bret, 19..-....

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Gold, Herbert, 1924-

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American novelist & essayist. From the description of Herbert Gold papers, 1951-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 470399985 American novelist, essayist, and editor. From the description of Papers of Herbert Gold, ca. 1959. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34567158 American author. From the description of Letters, 1969-1979, to Robie Macauley [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Skbrew, Myra.

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Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.

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Domini, John, 1951-

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Zuckerman, Phil

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Markowitz, Mitch

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Gardner, John, 1933-1982

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Najarian, Peter, 1940-....

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Ford, Richard, 1944-

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Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land,nd Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Ford received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction snd the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day in 1996.Ford's novel Wildlife was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. He won the ...

Hansen, Ron, 1947-....

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Hoagland, Edward Coolbaugh, 1908-

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Edward Hoagland is a writer born in New York in 1932. Hoagland has written several books of fiction but since the late 1960s he has become known almost exclusivley for his non-fiction. His first novel, Cat Man, won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award in 1956. The Los Angeles Times has called Hoagland "one of our best and most esteemed nature writers." He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1979 and a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1982. Hoagland has al...

Humphreys, Josephine N.

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Author residing on Sullivan's Island (Charleston Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1946, 1960-1993 (bulk 1983-1987). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46345001 From the description of Papers, 1960-2000 (bulk 1983-1987). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 79756747 Novelist, of South Carolina. From the description of Rich in love autographed promotional poster [picture] ; [1987]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat re...

Macdonald, Cynthia, 1963-

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Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994

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Peter Hillsman Taylor was a prize-winning American author, known for his stylish novels and short stories of the American South. Born in Tennessee, Taylor's family travelled throughout the South during his youth, and he credits these experiences with inspiring his later writing. He enrolled at Rhodes College, where Allen Tate urged him to transfer to Vanderbilt to study under John Crowe Ransom; he later followed Ransom to Kenyon College, along with Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. He garnered ...

Wolff, Tobias, 1945-....

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Bennington Writing Workshops.

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Malamud, Bernard

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Novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud was born in 1914 and raised in Brooklyn. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his heritage would play a key role in his development as a writer. He was also influenced by growing up during the the Depression and by 19th-century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville. His bittersweet, tragicomic stories often merge reality and fantasy, and explore the human condition through themes of suffering and moral obligation. His work has won many ...

Houston, James D.

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James Dudley Houston (b. November 10, 1933, d. April 16, 2009); American writer of fiction and nonfiction focused primarily on California. From the description of James D. Houston papers, circa 1960-2008 (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 773838867 ...

Darhansoff, Liz.

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Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989

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American author. From the description of Edward Abbey's Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Some Notes from a Secret Journal production records, 1988-1989. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 41557904 Edward Abbey was born on January 29, 1927. He grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. His first glimpse of the American Southwest was in 1944 when he hitchhiked to Seattle and then to Arizona. After serving as a U.S. Army rifleman in Italy from 1945-1946, he enrolled...

Apple-wood Books.

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Connell, Evan S., 1924-2013

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American author; b. Evan Shelby Connell, Jr.; writer of short stories, novels, and biography. From the description of Evan Connell collection, [19--] (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965285 ...

Magilavy, John.

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Diehl, Digby

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Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-....

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Cheuse, Alan

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American author and critic; George Mason University professor. From the description of Papers of Alan Cheuse [manuscript], 1991-1995. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647860658 From the description of Papers of Alan Cheuse [manuscript], 1992-1996. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647883377 From the description of Papers of Alan Cheuse, 1985-1994. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136075 American novelist, University o...

Carson, Josephine, 1919-....

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American author. From the description of Josephine Carson collection, 1949-1998. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70962631 Joseph Carson was a colonel of a volunteer force. From the description of Letter, 1813. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122498372 ...