Papers of Alan Cheuse, 1974-1989.

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, ...

Bell, Madison Smart, 1957-

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Madison Smartt Bell (Princeton Class of 1979) is a native of Nashville, Tenn. His parents were friends with such writers of the Agrarian Group as Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Madison Jones, leading Bell to specialize in the Agrarians while at Princeton University. He received his M.A. (1981) from Hollins College, Va., and later, after living and working in New York City, Bell consciously moved away from the southern influences in his writings. He then settled in Baltimo...

Ascher, Barbara Lazear

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Fein, Cheri

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Najarian, Peter, 1940-....

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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...

Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

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Kennedy, William, 1928-....

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William, Kennedy, born 1928 in Albany, New York, is an award winning author and journalist. He is best known for his "Albany Cycle" of eight novels, one of which (Ironweed) received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984. Following his childhood and then college in the Albany area, Kennedy began his professional literary career as a journalist at a local newspaper, followed by an army newspaper in Europe, the Albany Times-Union, and later was managing editor of the San Juan Star. He left his edi...

Dew, Robb Forman.

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Clements, Paul, 1947-

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Dove, Rita Frances, 1952-

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Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995 she served as the Poet Laureate of the United States. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987, and also she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio and graduated from Miami University. She held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany and received her MFA from the University of Iowa. She has taught at Universtiy ...

Dillard, Annie

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American author. From the description of Letter, to Robie Macauley [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808409 From the description of Letter, to Robie Macauley, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959691 ...

Markowitz, Mitch

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Thompson, Bob, 1937-1966

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Bob Thompson (1937-1966) was a figurative painter in New York, N.Y. From the description of Bob Thompson papers, 1955-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477633 Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1937; d. 1966. From the description of Bob Thompson papers, 1955-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220228318 Bob Thompson (1937- 1966) was a figurative painter in New York, N.Y. From the description of Bob Thompson papers, 1955-2003. (Unknown). World...

Berriault, Gina

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Arias, Ron, 1941-

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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...

Holinger, William, 1944-

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Mewshaw, Michael, 1943-....

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American novelist. From the description of Marginal notes and comments written in a copy of his The toll, [197-?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 86141830 ...

Perera, Victor, 1934-

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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...

Buechner, Frederick, 1926-....

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Born July 11, 1926, Buechner was named for his father, Carl Frederick Buechner. After his father's death, when Buechner was ten, the famiy moved frequently. In 1941 Buechner was sent to the Lawrenceville School, where he built a lasting friendship with James Merrill. Buechner, after his graduation from Lawrenceville in 1943, attended Princeton University. His education there was interrupted by his draft into the army. He later returned to Princeton to graduate in 1947. In 1950 he published his P...

Busch, Frederick, 1941-2006

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American author. From the description of Papers, 1971-1989. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 22189834 ...

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

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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...

Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011

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By Source, Fair use, Link Reynolds Price was born Edward Reynolds Price, in Macon, North Carolina, on 1 February 1933. He earned his B.A. degree from Duke University (1955) while on a full scholarship. After graduating, Price won a Rhodes scholarship, which allowed him to attend Merton College, Oxford. In 1958, Price received his Bachelor of letters from Merton College. His thesis focused on the English poet John Milton. Upon his return from Oxford, Price secured a position in the English d...

Tyler, Anne

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Pulitzer Prize winning author of ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, BREATHING LESSONS, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION, LADDER OF YEARS, and other popular novels. From the description of Papers, 1994-1998, 2001 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 82167587 From the description of Papers, 1994-1998. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40093299 Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, BREATHING LESSONS, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION, LADDER OF YEARS, and ot...

Settle, Mary Lee

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American author, journalist, and teacher; b. 1918. From the description of Mary Lee Settle collection, 1910-1990. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968715 American author. From the description of Papers of Mary Lee Settle [manuscript], 1988-1989. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833623 Mary Lee Settle (1918- ), American novelist, was born in Charleston, West Virginia, the daughter Joseph Edward and Rachel Tompkins Settle. She has...

Wolff, Tobias, 1945-....

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Steinke, Darcey Phelps.

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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...

Elman, Richard M.

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A professional writer of articles, stories, reviews, and poetry. From the description of [Papers] / Richard M. Elman. 1963-1973. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 13872586 Richard Elman (1932-1997) was an American author, novelist and poet. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1955 and studied creative writing at Stanford, after which he embarked on a literary career producing novels, nonfiction, essays, book reviews, poetry and other pieces. He also ...

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 ...

Morris, Mary McGarry

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Garrett, George, 1929-2008

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George Garrett (1929-2008) was a novelist and poet who taught at Hollins University and the University of Virginia. He also worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and was poet laureate for Virginia from 2002-2006. From the guide to the Correspondence of George Garrett to DeWitt Henry, 1972-1988, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) American author. From the description of The girl in the black raincoat [manuscript], 1966....

Woodworth, Kate

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Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-....

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White, Jon Manchip, 1924-2013

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Jon Manchip White is a distinguished Welsh-American writer who has published over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction. White was born in 1924. He matriculated at Cambridge; after military service, he returned and completed a degree in prehistoric archaeology and anthropology in 1950. White worked for the BBC Television Service, the British Foreign Service, turning to full-time writing in 1956. In 1967, he became writer-in-residence at the University of Texas at El Paso, leaving in 1977 to head t...

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-....

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National Book Award-winning author Cormac McCarthy is perhaps best known for his novels, All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998). From the description of Cormac McCarthy Collection, 1984, n.d. (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 48226333 Cormac McCarthy, author of award-winning and best-selling novels including All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, was born Charles McCarthy, J...

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 ...

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

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Margaret Gemmell, later van Judah, was a friend of Steinbeck's during their stay at Stanford University, 1925-26. Included with the papers is a manuscript in her own hand describing her friendship with Steinbeck. From the description of John Steinbeck papers, 1925-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866392 This is the producer's copy, property of Oscar Serlin; the play ran from 7 Apr. to 6 June, 1942. From the description of The moon is down, a play in 3 acts...

Tillinghast, Richard

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Fisher, Franklin, 1939-

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Blount, Roy

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Wier, Allen, 1946-....

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Kunstler, James Howard.

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Updike, John

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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...

McCann, Richard M. (Richard Morwood)

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Reed, John, 1887-1920

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Reed (Harvard, A.B. 1910) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the Communist Labor Party. From the description of John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612376944 From the guide to the John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939., (Houghton Library, Harvard College L...

Gurganus, Allan, 1947-....

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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 ...

Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-....

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Barry Lopez is a writer of both fictional short stories and non-fiction works. His awards are numerous: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Award, John Burroughs Medal for Of Wolves and Men, and National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. Lopez was raised in California and New York City and currently lives in Oregon. From the description of Barry Lopez papers, 1964-2001 and undated. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 545...

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

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